Identify the reasoning in the following argument: "The method of teaching in the classroom can be compared to the architectural plan of a building."

The reasoning is analogical, drawing a likeness between two different things.

A teaching method and an architectural plan belong to quite separate domains.

The argument compares them by noting a shared structural feature.

Just as a plan lays out a building, a method lays out instruction.

Inference by transferring a similarity from one case to another is analogy.

This comparison of unlike things on a common point is analogical reasoning.