Lester Faigley, Jack Selzer in their book ”Good Reasons” chapter 7 implies that there are different tools to writing an argument. The authors tell a story of a drunk driving incident and implies that maybe checkpoints could be used more often, and also repeat offenders should go straight to jail. The book states that by telling your story and defining the argument such as drunk driving and comparing the treatments in different states of the use of alcohol while driving. And also doing some research on the laws in different state you might just have a good argument on the use of check points, and also if a repeat offender should go directly to jail. The purpose of this chapter I feel is to prepare us to write a good argument, and also some good research will and can possibly make for a good argument.

Lester Faigley, and Jack Selzer. Good Reasons: Researching and Writing Effective Arguments.