G/B Chapter Six: Skeptics May Object Planting a Naysayer in Your Text English 1010: November 8, 2011 According

the Graff and Birkenstein: 1. The anecdote by Jane Tompkins at the beginning of the chapter is relevant because.

2. How important to writing is the device of planting a naysayer in the text?

3. Why is writing seen as an act of entering a conversation? How will you be entering a conversation in your issue paper? What topic?

4. How is a counter-argument like a preemptive strike? Where in your text could you most likely facilitate this?

5. What are the advantages of planting a naysayer in the text? What are disadvantages if you dont?

6. Give examples of nameless, faceless naysayers and tell why they are useful. What danger is there in using them? (Think what big problem can occur. G/B dont mention this.)

7. What happens if you categorically reject all labels?

8. What does it mean to qualify labels? Give an example or two?

9. What is the best way to let the naysayer speak directly?

10. How much time should you give your opposition?

11. What is the difference between bullying and persuading?

12. What does it mean to end with a combined vision?

13. What does it mean to stretch the limits of your thinking?

14. Give a template for entertaining objections: (Use one you think you can use in your paper.)

15. Give a template for naming your naysayer: (Use one you think you can use in your paper.)