In chapter 2, titled “Reading Arguments,” of Lester Faigley and Jack Selzer’s Good Reasons, the authors imply that being able to read and analyze arguments is a valuable skill and has many unique parts. Faigley and Selzer begin by explaining how to find an argument, and then go on to give directions about how to take notes on the reading and understand the different sides of an argument. Faigley and Selzer also discuss logical fallacies that may be included in arguments, and how to recognize these fallacies and use this recognition to analyze the argument. The authors’ purpose is to inform about reading arguments in order to cause the audience to become better at analyzing and reading arguments. The audience of this chapter is a collection of students in College because the authors appear to use higher level vocabulary, like “concise” and “thorough,” but still include popular topics like the internet to appeal to a younger group of College students.
Works Cited
Faigley, Lester and Jack Selzer. Good Reasons: Researching and Writing Effective Arguments. Chicago: Pearson, 2012. Print
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