Rhetorical Precis on Chapter 13 of Good Reasons

In the thirteenth Chapter, “Proposal Arguments,” of Good Reasons (2012), Lester Faigley and Jack Selzer claim that proposal arguments consist of an argument that someone should do something. The authors back this claim up by giving step-by-step instructions on how to make a proposal argument and provide good reasons and ways to do this, including “Stating a proposed solution” and “Demonstrating that the solution is feasible,” whilst also providing two examples of proposal arguments. (Faigley and Selzer 186) The purpose of this Chapter is to instruct on how to create a proposal argument in order to increase the ability of the reader to create good proposal arguments. The intended audience of this Chapter  is a group of college students, because the vocabulary and topics described are at a college level, and one of the examples consists solely about life at a college, specifically.

Works Cited

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