"They Say"

Saundra Johnson

Christy Vance

English 102

Reading Response

Developing the Argument

After reading the assigned pages given to us by our English teacher, Christy Vance, I felt a relief and comfort that had developed because the article gave me some insights into preparing my argument paper. The reading brought a new angle for me to ponder and choose which one of the three ways to support my thesis stance. Majority of us have an idea of how we wish to develop our essays, and the article gave us a few different formats in which we could build our arguments.

Producing and stating the argument question as clearly and quickly as possible is considered the "they say" segment. The most important piece of advice that I gleaned from the reading was to make your essay a conversation with your intended audience. Gaining this piece of knowledge will hopefully reflect in my paper the stance I have chosen to support. The templates are a good guide to help produce a cohesive, straightforward argument question.

The "Yes/No/Okay, But" section introduced the three most used techniques for agreeing,disagreeing, or some combination of the two. It is referred to as the "I say" portion of the essay paper. This part of the article showed some varied styles of how to respond to the "they say" piece of the reading assignment. This required study has been beneficial in showing me ways to cultivate replies to the opposite stance of the argument I propose in the composition.