What kind of support is used in the following statement? "In recent months, newspapers have carried hundreds of reports of vicio
us dogs attacking people in Los Angeles, St. Louis, Boston, and Orlando. These reports show that dog attacks are an increasingly serious problem nationwide."a. analogical reasoningb. reasoning from principlec. journalistic reasoningd. reasoning from specific instancese. causal reasoning
Reasoning from specific instances is a kind of reasoning or persuasion in which we progress from some particular cases or facts to a general conclusion. Here, particular facts are dogs' attacking people in Los Angeles, dogs' attacking people in St.Louis, dogs' attacking people in Boston, and dogs' attacking people in Orlando. From these facts, the writer came to a conclusion that dog attacks are a serious problem in the nation.
