Thursday, February 9, 2012

Rhetorical Precis of Chapter 4 in Good Reasons


In the fourth Chapter, “Drafting and Revising Arguments,” of Good Reasons (2012), Lester Faigley and Jack Selzer claim that various components of the drafting process for an argument paper are important and need practice. Faigley and Selzer support this claim by stating the components of the paper that they claim are important, like the thesis, and show why it is important and how to revise these components, along with explaining how to analyze the same components in another author’s paper. Faigley and Selzer’s purpose is to instruct students on how to draft and revise their own, and other authors, arguments in order to cause the students to become better at writing their arguments and refining their ideas further. The intended audience for the article is a group of college students, because the words “college,” “campus,” and “university” are used many times throughout the text and the vocabulary and subject matter is on a college level.







Works Cited

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

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