Reading Response #template

Sofiane Filouane

Text
Greene, Stuart. Argument as Conversation: The role of Inquiry in Writing a Researched
Argument. The Subject is Research. ED. Wendy Bishop and Pavel Zemliansky. Portsmouth,
NH: Boynton/Cook, 2001. 145-64. Print.

Summary
In this article by Stuart Greene primarily introduces the idea of argumentation in daily
life conversation by discussing that we confront an issue/topic that is open to dispute and have a
lively discussion on what we feel/think about it. Stuart then connects the same reasoning in
writing in argumentative work. Greene analyzes the various aspects that go into writing a
researched argument: 1) The recent topics that people talk/debate about. 2) Relevant problems in
society. 3) Evidence that persuades/ questions readers. 4) The stakes of the argument. Once these
ideas have been established, the writer would get a better sense of the actual issue and frame the
essay into a solidified position that the reader can follow.

Claim
The most important idea one of my peers outside of this class would benefit from is to
understand that you should bring an argumentation in daily life conversation by discussing how
to confront an issue/topic by using the four ideas that the author mentioned.
Understanding this it will be easier for students to write about their issue/topic because
the students can use the four ideas on there issue/topic to begin writing an essay.

Data
Through identifying what is at issue, you should begin to understand for whom it is an
issue who you are answering the question for.

Connection
In Greene's article there are many ideas and concepts that I would tell my peers to help
them better understand that bringing argumentation in daily life conversation is always
helpful.The most important idea one of my peers outside of this class would benefit from is to
understand that you need to bring an argumentation in daily life conversation by discussing how
to confront an issue/topic by using the four ideas that the author mentioned.
Understanding this it will be easier for students to write about their issue/topic because
the students can use the four ideas on there issue/topic to begin writing an essay. Through
identifying what is at issue, you should begin to understand for whom it is an issue who you
are answering the question for. This quote illustrates that if you know what the issue is then you
should know who the issue is for and who you are answering the question for.

Vocabulary

Cultural Literacy- E.D. Hirsch uses the term cultural literacy as a way to understand a problem,
in this case the decline of literacy. Hirsch uses cultural literacy as a lens through which to
discriminate those who fulfill his criteria for literacy and those who do not. Cultural Literacy is
the ability to understand and participate fluently in a given culture.

The Rhetoric of Reason- The Rhetoric of Reason, reading means making judgements about
which of the many voices one encounters can be brought together into productive conversation.
The Rhetoric of Reason means the faculty of discovering the crux of the matter. It is a
characteristic of rhetorical invention and its precedes argumentation.

Scholarship boy- If you were writing an essay using Hoggarts term scholarship boy as a lens
through which to say something about education, you might ask how Hoggarts term illuminates
new aspects of another writers examples or your own. Scholarship boy means a child from a
working-class family who feels as if he cannot afford to admire his parents [so] he
concentrates on the benefits that education will bestow on him.

Contexere- Rather, context, derived from the latin contexere, denotes a process of weaving
together. Contexere means to compose, connect, link and combine.