Reading Response: TSIS 51-75

I love this book! It provides one with awesome advice, and it enables one to learn what a paper's "do's and don'ts" are. Pages 51-75 discuss how to agree, disagree, or a combination of both...and how then to support your assertion. The chapter goes over how a writer should not spend too much time trying to declare their position because this puts the reader to great frustration (Graff/Birkenstein). In other words, the text loses its essence if the reader does not make his/her point in time. I often times have the same problem with my writing, fortunately, this book has made me realize this very fact and has also provided me with the essential tools that i will need to make proper changes to my "agreeing/disagreeing/. Writer's should make it clear to their reader's who is speaking (Graff/Bikenstein 67). It is not the reader's job to try an figure out who is speaking; the writer should make it clear enough (So, and so says....(or) so, and so argues....). When the reader is having a difficult time trying to figure out who is speaking the writer looks like a weak writer, and in result, loses credibility. Tying this reading to Aristotle's topoi, i strongly believe that "The Advantages topoi ties in real well"; this reading provides it's reader with great academic advice that will help a student improve his/her paper. This reading was certainly advantages, well at least i found it to be. The chapters speak for themselves, each provides excellent academic advice; therefore, it is advantageous for it's readers.