Argument As Persuasion Dialogue Summary

Name: Daniel Na

Course: ENGL 135

Instructor: Monika Rydygier Smith

Reading Response: Student Beliefs and the Teaching of Argument

1) After scanned through the article, I think it is about a new kind of teaching method. It is quite short for a research paper, only have an introduction paragraph and two other paragraphs, “Argument as Persuasion Dialogue” and “Point of view and the commitment store”. Basically, the article suggest that when a student writing a essay, considering the arguments of the essay as a persuasion dialogue is a good concept for students to a good essay and makes students become a critical thinker. For me, writing a good essay with essay with a good argument are always hard, because I always give the most common arguments, which makes the essay board and tedious. It is actually make sense though, through the argument with teachers or peers, usually students could gain more information and build a wholesome thinking pattern. Hence, the will be able to write better essay. But students nowadays, or teenagers in general, is not that easy to be convinced. Even sometimes, as long as teachers tell them what is right, they will go to the exactly opposite direction on purpose. So, for a teacher, finding the balance point in the
Sandra could not understand that “abortion is killing” because of her religion. Lily was also believe that abortion was wrong, but after she became a mother herself and felt humiliated after being asked to get the tuba ligation permission from her husband, she started to believe that our own body should not be control by anyone. And it was true to Tanya. I found this tree example very memorable because it perfectly shows how personal experience changes people’s opinion. It also further supports the author’s idea that argument is the main reason that people change their