Group 1, Arguing the other side

Group 1
Arguing the other side
Dylan, Andy, Cecily, Phillip, Anjulie, Taylor, Sarah

In Clive Thompson's essay "The New Literacy," Stanford professor Andrea Lunsford argues that the explosion of online writing is good on a technical level. Lunsford believes students are to asses their audience in a more convorsational public setting, instead of the traditional argument that a asynchronous letter or essay writing allows. We dissagree with professor Lunsford's view that online writing has done students good becasue recent research has shown there is more to being a good writer than having the ability to assess you audience on a personal level. In Graff and Birkensteins book "They Say I Say," they propose that to be an efficient writer one must be able to demonstrate the proper moves of writing, which is using templates, being thorough and having evidence to support your ideas. When we try to adjust our tone for our audience we don't show the proper moves to make our writing as good as experts.


Reasons:

-We used template #3 on the blue paper, "I dissagree with X ________"
-Evidence to argue point Lunsford is making
-Also use yes, but move yes assesing your audience is good, but not all you need to be a good writer.
-Harris says argueing the other side is showing the usefulness of a term or idea that a writer has criticized or noting problems with one that she/he argued. We did this by agreeing with Lunsford that writing to your audience is important but not the only thing needed to be a good writer. The right "moves" are also needed.