Rhetorical Precis Ch. 2

In chapter two of Good Reasons(2012), by Jack Selzer and Lester Faigley asserts that the first step to writing a good argument is to read the opposing argument; fallowed by finding fallacies and last mapping out your argument. They prove their point by using the edge of technology to show how we can make good arguments, and better our writing. The authors challenge to us all is to better our selves as writers and in order to do that we must read and study other writers. Their tone seems to be strictly educational, and is mainly focused on composition students.