Analyzing Jay Heinrichs's 'Quotes From The Story My Thought'

In the article “Taking a ‘War of Words’ Too Literally”, Deborah Tannen defines “argument culture”, as “the best way to get anything done”. Debating is when “Issues are routinely approached by having two sides stake out opposing positions and do battle. This sometimes drives people to take positions that are more adversarial than they feel-and can get

Immediately as the speech begins, Henry’s tone manifests itself and remains unwavering. Henry begins, “It is natural for a man to indulge in the illustration of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth” (1). This sheds insight on his message and portrays him as a well versed individual. He then strengthens his tone when he says

In Chapter 2 of Thank You for Arguing by Jay Heinrichs, he discuses how to distinguish the difference between an argument and a fight, and to decide what you want out of an argument. The key point of an argument is to win over the audience to your point of view. In order to win an argument, you need to persuade them. You want your opponent to be persuaded using subtle logical tactics not power and intimidation. Using power and intimidation is the characteristics of a fight. This is when one person takes out his aggression on another, which does not persuade them but initiate’s revenge or rejection. During a fight, the key objective is to win by attacking and belittling your opponent, paying no attention to getting them to change their mind.

The first chapter introduced the reader to the art of rhetoric. He describes how rhetoric works through real life examples. He demonstrates ways that rhetoric persuades us like, argument from strength, and seduction. He tells the reader that the sole purpose of arguing is to persuade the audience. He showed that the chief purpose of arguing is to also achieve consensus, a shared faith in a choice.

This trait in Ellis’s writing and teaching style is what really grabbed me and got me interested in the book. How wise is the person who realizes that as scholarly as they may be, there may always be a better opinion out there? Joseph has presented to me a most noble way to write. He has circumvented my prejudice against authors who insist that their ideas and methods are the only thoughts that exist.

An argument is a claim supported by reasons and pieces of evidence. Arguments have five primary attributes. Firstly, argumentation is a social process which involves two or more parties responding to one another’s proposal or claim. For the case of a written argument, the writer responds to the content of the essay through a critique process. The responses should not only involve restating the same claims and reasons but rather providing supportive pieces of evidence to the positions taken accordingly. Secondly, the aim of an argument is to make the audience adhere to the written critique. The objective is to influence the audience with the aim of gaining support to

Throughout the beginning of his argument, Green uses great amounts of emotional appeal to initially convince his audience to accept his ideas. Green understands that he first needs to show the audience that he understands their hesitations. Only then can he truly illustrate how passionate he is about their continued

The way Denfeld appeals to a reader’s emotions makes one really focus on what is going

By Corder’s opinion, our argument is not necessarily a verbal disagreement, but our beliefs and experiences that shape and define who we are. Corder introduces his ideas by first critiquing common

The way Denfeld appeals to a reader’s emotions makes one really focus on what is going

Worthen is incorrect in believing that conversation is the same as an argument. A conversation allows us to have an understanding between others; while also allowing us to connect with a multitude of people. A conversation does not require us to use our persuasion skills like an argument. A conversation is free minded, and you share your feelings. Worthen assertion that “the phrase cripples our range of expression and flattens the complex role that emotions play in our reasoning”,registers as rash.

[Speaker Credibility] In the weeks since then I have researched Munch’s emotional style relentlessly, even mimicking it in my own works.

The writer’s purpose is that students’ in their writing should feel that they can write a strong discourse freely in confidence. The writer explains that the line is visible between a student and a teacher/scholar. Which is true but he goes onto explain that this also creates a barrier between discourses as well, especially in writing. Students’ feel that they have no right to interject an opinion into a conversation that’s “not their place”. This can reflect a student's’ writing as a result could deduce their argument in a discourse since they feel they can not speak in freely with confidence. The writer wants students’ to avoid having that lack of confidence with use of manipulation. Instead of speaking out of spite, you can create a commonplace of putting yourself into the perspective that you can speak freely and your audience can understand your argument.

This is something that I thought he did wonderfully; as the book continues and he grows older, his perception and understanding of the world change along with his writing. So while he is writing

I loved how he started everything talking about a Shakespearean character Ophelia and her father Polonius. Ophelia herself didn’t have a firm opinion about anything and listened to what everyone said. Polonius, just believed his point was right, even though it could be very wrong, and was very dominant in his supposed knowledge.