The author, Stuart Green, makes a few interesting points in the text, Argument as Conversation: The Role of Inquiry in Writing a Researched Argument. Stuart Green described arguments as conversations. They contain an issue and many viewpoints on the specified situation of the issue. He mentioned the conversations we have are never new; they’ve been discussed before and they will be discussed after you leave the conversation. Also, you, as a reader, need to find out about the ideas said about your specific conversation in the past in order for you to branch out your own idea about the conversation. Stuart Green discussed about framing. He defined framing as “a metaphor for describing the lens, or perspective, from which writers present their…
The ideas in the passage flowed well and all the ideas seemed connected. I applaud Stuart Green for paragraphing the ideas in a sense for the reader to know what he is saying and what to expect in the next paragraph. I thought it was interesting when he described an argument as a conversation. Before I read the passage, I did perceive an argument to be a heated conversation between two or more people and with harsh words, but the author made an argument seem to have a neutral tone. I now apprehend that a conversation can be an argument without the harsh tone. It can simply have more than one viewpoint without the harsh tone which is an argument. Also, I learned something new: the concept of framing. I didn’t know there was an exact word for the concept of framing. I thought it was always one word that just described the topic of the writing or reading piece. But, it is more than just one word or phrase that describes the topic. It can be a word that came from a passage you read that describes your own experience. I see it as an “inside joke” that is elaborated and explained throughout your writing piece. I think the idea of framing is a brilliant way to furbish your writing whether it’s an essay or even a paragraph. After learning this new concept, I will be sure to use it in my own writing. Moving on to Stuart Green’s conclusion, it was wonderfully written. I couldn’t agree more with him on the two different views of research. I believe people see research as plainly as gathering information. But, they don’t really apprehend the research they gather and use it for a purpose or they don’t see it as discovering a new possibility or even a…
