First exercise response

In "They Say/I Say" Graff and Birkenstein talk about how academic writing follows templates that allow a writer to engage in critical thinking throughout their writing. They also emphasize the importance of not only expressing ones own ideas in their writing, but having those ideas be a response to some other persons or groups conclusion or belief. In your course description of rhetoric, the main focus is taking different forms of media that focus on arguments and evaluate them with our own interpretation of those arguments and then conducting our own positions on the issue. There is overlap in Graff and Birkenstein and your argument of rhetoric in that both look at the importance of listening to others ideas and arguments and using them to conduct our own position on the topic.