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In the reader "Writing about Writing" the authors, Elizabeth Wardle and Doug Downs try to explain in their intro how their book takes a different approach when it comes to teaching writing. They suggest that instead of being taught how to write, we be taughtaboutwriting. By providing steps for making a good introduction to a paper through the "CARS" model and providing examples of each step, the authors show how we will be taught about writing. In his article, "Argument as Conversation" Stuart Greene tries to explain how arguing can be a very good thing in an academic setting because it provides multiple ways of looking at an issue from different people's opinions. He many tries to articulate that it is important to develop a good question that accurately addresses the problem and does require one concrete answer. He helps show his point through using the term framing as a way to take someone else's work and using it to help express your own ideas which he provides an example of by showing something a student wrote with this method. Both passages are directed to college students.

GRR: I would define the word argument as an exchange of opposing ideas between two or more people in which one party tries to convince others that their view on the topic is correct. Using the word argument in everyday language mostly has a negative label to it. Certainly no one is pleased when they find out that some of his friends got into an "argument." Arguing in an academic setting however can be beneficial for learning since you get different points of view and can compile everything you've heard in order to come to a conclusion that makes the most sense to you. QD: 1.) According to Greene, not only does reading serve as a way to obtain information for a paper but it also models what good writing should look like. If you read a paper written by an excellent writer you not only obtain information from the text, but always a template as to how you should write your own papers. 2.) The passage is quoted again because it is the part that emphasizes Greene's idea of framing the most. Burk's metaphor helps connect an event that happened in the Dominican to a normal part of American culture. The metaphor helps show how the event affected the writer. 3.) Framing is using someone else's text to help express your own ideas and thoughts. Framing can be used as a tool to help the writer articulate what they are trying to say by using past works he/she has read. The framing concept of transculturation was shown through the metaphor of the Dominican children running after the man with the ice cream much like American kids do with an ice cream truck. AEI: 2.) Greene's article was set up almost like a conversation between himself and the reader. He shows what he is teaching in his writing when he offers more than one way to look at a topic or by providing different sides of an argument over the same issue. He helps show how arguments cannot be one dimensional and can branch out to other topics through examples from other texts.

The reading was remotely helpful. It did provide some examples of good ways to set up an introductory paragraph and the different texts help portray his ideas a little bit better. It is interesting to see that this book claims to have a very different approach when it comes to teaching students how to write.