Quote one idea or strategy from one of the readings assigned for homework. Explain what it means and how it can help you in Essay 3.
College Writing 1: Monsters and/in Culture | Spring 2018
A COURSE SITE FOR ENGLISH 110, SECTIONS 3 & 26 | Professor Christopher Williams
“While you must acknowledge other views, don’t focus on them as you assemble the core of your argument (claims, reasons, and evidence).”
This means that while you find and acknowledge the counterarguments for your argument they should not be the main point of your entire essay or argument. They should be surrounding the core claim, reason and evidence and help support it.
This will help me as I might get too focused on the counterarguments.
“They say, I say”, I believe this is helpful because can give you an idea about how to explain your ideas and it’s an easy way to do it because you are comparing them to someone else point of view. It’s definitely easy to do it this way. This can help alot on essay 3 because we can use this way to compare your ideas with the sources we have and this way make an stronger argument.
“we can’t urge to strongly keep in mind what “they say” as you move through the rest of your text.”pg27 staring with what others are saying.
the text goes on to say that as we are analyzing and are ideas are getting complex it is easy for the reader to forget what the motivating ideas are. There fore we must constantly refer to “they say”
to maintain focus.
According to the article“Acknowledgments and Responses” by Wayne Booth, he states that “QUESTIONING YOUR ARGUMENT AS YOUR READERS WILL “(140), this is the best way to find my problems of my essay, and it is also important to know what the readers think.
“Academic writing is argumentative writing, and we believe that to argue well you need to do more than assert your own position. You need to enter your conversation”.
we need argumentative writing, which means we need to have a lots of arguments and evidence to support the argument and also we need to enter our converstation to make the our essay more appealing to the reader. It will help in essay three because my essay question contains debate so it’s very useful to have a convertation.
“A crucial step in assembling your argument is to test your argument as your readers will, even in ways they might not. ”
it means it is better to question your argument as the viewers would think.
“You must also find a way of entering a conversation with others’ views–with something the ‘they say'”. It means my argument should connect with other peoples’ ideas. Because the writing essay is a logical work, if a writer doesn’t develop his own argumental idea based on “conversation”, readers may be confused. That’s what I lack in my essay 3, I should find more other views of movie from other places, so that I can develop my essay convincingly
“The single most important template that we focus on in this book is the “they say _; I say _” formula that gives our book its title.”
The argument seems more valid if we use other people’s statement to connect with our statement
“Instead of focusing solely on abstract principle of writing“（2） this qoute give me a temple where it helped me to do some critical thinking on the college level
“If you imagine a question that you can’t answer, decide whether you can find the answer before you-go on. Don’t go easy on your-self with this one: the time to fix a problem with your argument is when you find it. ”
“A crucial step in assembling your argument is to test your argument as your reader will, even in ways they night not. Then acknowledge and respond to at least the most important objections that you can imagine them raising.” (Acknowledgments and Responses, 142)
This quote is saying that a good way to prove your credibility in your topic is by staying one step ahead of the audience by acknowledging your flaws, and respond to them. This is very important when writing Essay 3 because you are writing a lens essay that takes observations and analyzes that can be interpreted in many ways and your way might not agree with others.
“[T]he best academic writing has one underlying feature: it is deeply engaged in some way with other people’s views”. It means that my idea can connect with other people’s idea. That can help reader better understand my idea.
“This last option- agreeing and disagreeing simultaneously —is one we especially recommend, since it allows you to avoid a simple yes or no response and present a more complicated argument, while containing that complication within a clear ‘on the one hand / on the other hand’ framework”
“You must respond to their predictable questions and objections.” It means in my essay I must think more question and answer it. And trying to find out which one question is the audience has more interest in it.