Reading Summary Reflection

These Reading Summaries, in my opinion, served mainly as an auxiliary to the RWDs, in that, whereas the RWDs focused mainly on extracting the key point from the assigned reading, the Reading Summaries were meant to rephrase the main argument and the evidence the author used to support it. In this way, after analyzing a …

Reading Summary 5

In chapter two of Winning Arguments, titled “Political Arguments,” author Stanley Fish goes in depth on the state of modern politics, namely, why political discourse is often extremely polarizing.  The first reason Fish accredits for our divisive politics is the ever presence of spin agents: that is to say, orators who attempt to make their …

Reading Summary 4

In one chapter of Winning Arguments titled “Academic Arguments,” author Stanley Fish claims that the world of academic discourse, which attempts to give the appearance of presenting facts in an unbiased and opinionated manner, is in fact beholden to an unwritten decorum. He theorizes that modern academics have formed an “interpretive community,” defined as a …

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