Response #1

Sean Demme

5.29.12

Eng 1510

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#2. Greene uses this metaphor in order to explain how argument can go a bunch of different ways but cannot really be resolved. One side of the argument can go one way, to be countered in another direction. In the end, they are basically going nowhere because both parties has different views. Greene uses this because he wants to show the way that argument has to be shown from each side, you have to address your counter argument. It presents writing in almost a bad way, at a glance, even though it isn’t intended to be that way. The intent is to show that argument, if let go, can just turn into a game of tug-o-war. It also challenges the idea of context, this is true because if you take an argument out of context, like the way the men do in the saloon, you can end up losing your original argument.

#3. Framing is basically outlining what small part of a big whole that the author is trying to convey. The metaphor more commonly used is like a picture -  and the way a photographer can focus and shine lights on different parts of a picture, the part that he/she wants you to see. Framing can allow a writer show you that he/she know what they are talking about and also put more focus onto this subject.

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#2. Greene’s passage is presented as a conversation. He is telling the reader the tools that authors use in order to get the right points across. He frames his argument with passages from other authors to show that he A. has done research, and B. can show actual examples of these writing tools at work. I didn’t know at the time, but at the end you realize that Greene is actually arguing in conversation.