Good Reasons- Chapter 3 Rhetorical Precis

            In chapter 3, titled “Finding Arguments,” of Lester Faigley and Jack Selzer’s Good Reasons, the authors claim that arguments are everywhere and that evidence must support an argument for it to be a good argument. The authors first define arguments, consisting of claims and reasons, and instruct on how to find topics and create good arguments. Faigley and Selzer then go on to discuss sources, and agreement and disagreement with those sources that may or may not support your argument. Faigley and Selzer finish their chapter by discussing what makes a reason a good reason and explaining how to obtain evidence to support these reasons. The authors’ purpose is to instruct about how to create an argument in order to cause students to be able to create better arguments. The intended audience for this chapter is a College audience, because Faigley and Selzer refer many times to a “campus” and “degrees” and also discuss topics that are for adults, but not specialized enough to be for any specific type of adult.

Works Cited

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