Chapter 1 Rhetorical Precis

Phil Hopkins
English 102
Ms. DiPrince
Chapter 1 Rhetorical Précis

In the first Chapter, “Making an Effective Argument,” of Good Reasons (2012),
Lester Faigley and Jack Selzer claim that arguments are very common in
college and are a vital part of college writing. Faigley and Selzer support
their claim by using many examples where arguments are used in daily life and
then going on to present information about how to make an argument and what
steps to take to do so. A large part of these steps is the establishment of
credibility, which the authors find very important. The purpose of the
authors is to inform the reader about the steps to create an argument in order to help improve the reader’s ability to form effective arguments. The audience the authors have in mind is a collection of college students taking a writing class because they use the word “college” many times and use vocabulary at a college level.







Works Cited

Faigley, Lester and Jack Selzer. Good Reasons: Researching and Writing Effective Arguments. Chicago: Pearson, 2012. Print