Response to the Arguement.(Sorry guys, I am so late)

Be honest, I felt so sad when I saw the “20 pages”. How much time do I need to finish it? I don’t know. And addition to this, this paper’s title seems not very interesting. Then, I started to read it under the very unwilling feeling. However, when I finished the first two pages, I found it is a really funny paper. Then after I finished the reading the paper, I find out there are many places very interesting and thoughtful to me.
The first place is the “cultures of harmony”. It was come from Tannan’s word. It describes the cultures such as Japan and China, view open conflict and disagreement as a threat to the group. Maybe because I am a Chinese, I always very sense about the things that relates to Chinese unconsciously. I thought the “cultures of harmony” really matches the Chinese culture. In the Chinese culture, polite and good manner are very important. We were taught “with good attitude to talk to the other” or “when you want to point out somebody’s mistake, do not too directly or you will hurt them” all the time. I always believe that. But I also think that a good argument needs a very direct opening actually. Because we need to persuade the people and the direct and strong opening can always help us to reach the success.
Another interesting place to me is the section about the “two sides of an argument”. I like this sentence “Instead of two sides to every issue, might there be thirteen”. It just let me know everything is variable. Just like a plate, it maybe not in a circle shape. But it doesn’t mean it must be square. It can be a triangle or in a fish shape or any other shape. And came back to the argument, when we have a claim, we need to clear what side we are going to argue and how to support our argument. It requires us to think the sides of this claim carefully because the relationships between these sides are not only opposite. It can be support each other or support the same thing and so on. So, when we meet these things in the argument, we need to find a perfect way to support our own claim.
Then, how to find the perfect way is another place that I found interesting in this paper. That is to get the information from your audiences. The author called it “op-ed”. Because from your peers’ feedback, you can know what do they care most. In addition to this, from their questions you can know in what place you need to put more evidences to strong your comments. All of these can improve your paper. There are many other places can give us idea and knowledge to write a good paper such as how to begin with a hypothesis, how to move your reader, how to avoid some fallacies and so on. General speaking, this paper is very helpful to a argument writer especially to those fresh writer.