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    Stuart Greene discusses how arguments are similar to conversations in several ways. Arguments require presenting good reasons to support a viewpoint, anticipating counterarguments, and understanding how readers may object. Greene also introduces the concept of framing, which is a writer's perspective on an argument. Framing encourages naming a position, defining principles, specifying arguments, and organizing thoughts. Framing can also be a strategy for critically reading texts. Greene provides examples of how students have used framing to further illuminate their own experiences by incorporating ideas from other authors.

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    Stuart Greene discusses how arguments are similar to conversations in several ways. Arguments require presenting good reasons to support a viewpoint, anticipating counterarguments, and understanding how readers may object. Greene also introduces the concept of framing, which is a writer's perspective on an argument. Framing encourages naming a position, defining principles, specifying arguments, and organizing thoughts. Framing can also be a strategy for critically reading texts. Greene provides examples of how students have used framing to further illuminate their own experiences by incorporating ideas from other authors.

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    Stuart Greene discusses how arguments are similar to conversations in several ways. Arguments require presenting good reasons to support a viewpoint, anticipating counterarguments, and understanding how readers may object. Greene also introduces the concept of framing, which is a writer's perspective on an argument. Framing encourages naming a position, defining principles, specifying arguments, and organizing thoughts. Framing can also be a strategy for critically reading texts. Greene provides examples of how students have used framing to further illuminate their own experiences by incorporating ideas from other authors.

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    In Stuart Greenes Argument as Conversation arguments are

    illustrated to be very similar to conversation in several ways. Arguments


    entail proving good reasons to support your viewpoint, as well as
    counterarguments, and recognizing how and why readers might object to
    your ideas (145, Greene). Greene continues to introduce this idea by stating
    that research is similar to an argument. However, in order to state an
    argument, you first have to produce an original claim. To do this one would
    have to research people who discuss similar ideas, conflicts, and questions.
    Moreover, in order to be considered credible you would need to provide good
    reasons to support your viewpoint from contexts that you have analyzed,
    expect counterarguments, and know how to respond. As previously stated
    that arguments hold many correlations to conversation, Greene claims there
    are a few steps in writing as a form of dialogue. These steps include asking
    important and relevant questions, identifying an issue, identifying a situation,
    and then framing a good question.
    Greene then begins to discuss the characteristics of framing. In
    essence, framing is a writers perspective of an argument. An example given
    is through E.D. Hirsch. He uses cultural literacy to prove a decline of literacy
    through his perspective of people fulfilling his criteria for literacy and those
    that dont. Greene states that there are four reasons to use framing in
    writing: encourages you to name your position, define and describes the
    principle of your argument, specifies argument which leads to
    counterarguments used in conversation, and helps organize thoughts.

    Furthermore, framing is a strategy of critical inquiry when reading. To further


    understand this concept Richard Rodriguez uses Richard Hoggarts The uses
    of literacy to explain his life as a student. By using the term scholarship
    boy from one of Hoggarts passages, Rodriguez uses the idea of framing by
    using this text as a tool to explain his experience as a student. Another
    example Greene uses to illustrate the importance of framing is through a
    students essay on Learning American in Spanish. In this essay the
    student uses framing by incorporating ideas from Mary Louise Pratts article
    Arts of the Contact Zone in order for her to further illuminate her
    experience in the Dominican Republic in a town called Guayabal.
    Although research is at times viewed as just collecting information, it is
    so much more. By doing research you make connections among different
    conflicts, and with these connections you prove a point or an idea about this
    issue. Through conversation this research can then form a new worldview or
    even broaden your own knowledge.

    Work Cited:
    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.

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