Reading Response 1

        In the introduction to Elizabeth Wardle and Doug Downs' Writing about Writing the author's make a convincing argument for why it is important to learn about writing, not just how to write.  When one learns about writing they learn to put their own style and/or opinion into their writing.  They also learn to think critically about the writings of other people.  When one has worked on their ability to think through writings they can more easily participate in scholarly inquiry.  Scholarly inquiry is when a group of researchers come together to converse about a problem or the meaning of a text and what is the best solution to the problem or the most accurate meaning to the text.
          Stuart Greene expands on different aspects of writing in his article "Argument as Conversation: The Role of Inquiry in Writing a Researched Argument."  He attempts to convince his readers that all scholarly papers should take a side in an argument that is much more complex than what they are writing because their topic has been debated for longer than they could be writing.  Greene wrote that writers should try to make points for their side that have not been made before.  Greene also teaches that the frame, which is how much of an issue the writer presents, can be used to better writings.  Framing lets the author write from their perspective and can make a paper much more persuasive but also less honest.  It also forces the writer to not only establish their position on an issue but also to write exactly what they think on the issue.

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2 Greene quotes Kenneth Burke's metaphor again because it is very accurate in describing most arguments.  Most people that are currently involved in an argument over a large issue were not around when the argument began so they don't know how it began and cannot argue for or against all points.  The extended metaphor is that by entering a parlor you are a student or researcher that has just became interested in a topic.  You read multiple papers over the topic.  Eventually you feel that you have enough information over the topic to write a paper yourself.  Nobody that is going to read your paper was around when your topic first came to be so none of you know exactly how it was started.  This metaphor presents writing with a sense of curiosity due to that nobody knows all about a topic so other point of views are still precious.

3  Framing is writing from your own point of view.  It does not mean not being truthful, just only or mostly including information that supports your side of an argument.  The metaphor of a camera lens accurately describes framing because a camera lens lets one focus on what part a scene they want to be blurry and what part they want to be clear.  This concept is important to Greene because it allows a writer to make their arguments much more persuasive.

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2  Greene's article represents a conversation with the reader about different aspects of writing.  He frames his argument to convince the reader that elements such as framing are important in writing arguments.  Greene practices what he preaches in "Argument as Conversation" because in his article he uses the techniques that he is teaching the reader about.