In the chapter Countering, Harris reveals his opinion about how to write arguments. He says that the aim of academic writing should not be simple to prove how smart you are but to add to what can be said above a subject (Harris 56). In a word, writers should not simply oppose a text, but supplement it when they write an academic essay. So in countering, we need to pay attention to somewhere that others have not mention before, or pick up some weaknesses to discuss. We help the essay becomes much more persuasive and reliable after add some new materials, opinion and resources.
To clearly and successfully identify what texts fail to do, we need to figure out the writer’s purpose in the writing. And them we can get the essays’ limitation. Harris talk about 3 ways in this chapter to help us do the countering-Arguing the other side, Uncovering value and Dissenting-as well as some examples to illustrate the three ways. For example, there was a high-speed way accident in China several months ago. Some people claimed that it was the Chinese government's fault because the high-speed train was built in a very bad quality. Some corrupt officials took the money away. However, to counter these people's statement, others might say that it was not the Chinese government's fault. They pointed out that the reason of the accident is the bad weather. The weather influenced the signal receptor in the train, so that the train could not received instruments from the command center, and that was the main reason of the accident.
I think a good example about counting is our responses after we read some academic materials. Students have various opinions about the some issue, and they also have their own evidences and experiences to support their ideas. They may not always agree with what they have read, and they do counting in the response. By pick up an idea from the reading, they try to add some different ideas into the same issue. One more specific example is my unit 1 essay Is literature Dying in This Digital Age? I write this argument or blog after reading Andrew Sullivan, Chris Hedges and Nicholas Carr’s essays about literature. I kind of agree with some of their ideas, but also find some weaknesses. So I may add some evidence to help this argument become much more reliable.
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To clearly and successfully identify what texts fail to do, we need to figure out the writer’s purpose in the writing. And them we can get the essays’ limitation. Harris talk about 3 ways in this chapter to help us do the countering-Arguing the other side, Uncovering value and Dissenting-as well as some examples to illustrate the three ways. For example, there was a high-speed way accident in China several months ago. Some people claimed that it was the Chinese government's fault because the high-speed train was built in a very bad quality. Some corrupt officials took the money away. However, to counter these people's statement, others might say that it was not the Chinese government's fault. They pointed out that the reason of the accident is the bad weather. The weather influenced the signal receptor in the train, so that the train could not received instruments from the command center, and that was the main reason of the accident.
I think a good example about counting is our responses after we read some academic materials. Students have various opinions about the some issue, and they also have their own evidences and experiences to support their ideas. They may not always agree with what they have read, and they do counting in the response. By pick up an idea from the reading, they try to add some different ideas into the same issue. One more specific example is my unit 1 essay Is literature Dying in This Digital Age? I write this argument or blog after reading Andrew Sullivan, Chris Hedges and Nicholas Carr’s essays about literature. I kind of agree with some of their ideas, but also find some weaknesses. So I may add some evidence to help this argument become much more reliable.
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