Rhetorical Precis Chapter 7

In Lester Faigley's "Putting Good Reasons into Action" chapter, he asserts that there is a purpose in every writers head when preparing to enter into an argument of any sort and that every argument should have a valid point. He supports this idea with a real life situation in which "check points" are argued to be constitutional or an invasion of privacy. Faigley's purpose for writing this was to inform the readers, and future writers, that there needs to be an extensive, solid reason in order to produce an affective argument. His tone presents that casualty of this example, but is affective in explaining the idea of a well constructed purpose behind an argument.