Blogosphere 10/12

Chapter five in "They Say, I Say," by Gerald Graff, Cathy Birkenstein, and Russel Durst, the focus is on distinguishing between what the writer and what someone else's view is on a topic. If this is not done correctly the writing can be very confusing even when talking about a familiar subject. It is important to use voice markers to distinguish who's view is being expressed. I feel i have a difficult job smoothly doing this. It always looks like a fifth grader wrote it because I always end up making it so blatantly obvious.The templates that are given in this chapter seem the same way. they are all very obvious and overused I think. I will work on embedding my voice markers more smoothly.

Chapter six in the same book is about anticipating what the critics will say and responding to them in the text. The idea behind this is to make your text stronger so that way the naysayers will have nothing to argue with. My problem with this is, I always worry that the argument for the opposition will look more convincing than my own argument. I know that a lot of times it is just me worrying too much but, it still bothers me. In the end it always makes my arguments stronger but I still freak out about it. I am going to work more on incorporating other people's arguments into my writing and then arguing against it.