Greene's Arguments as Conversation Summary and Response

In author Stuart Greene's book, Argument as Conversation: The Role of Inquiry in Writing a Research Argument, he describes how arguments are used as an important part the use of information in conversations.  He pulls a passage from Kenneth Burke (1941) where it explains that arguments are all connected. Every argument we have is connected to the next,  whether we ate playing of past, present, or future information.  To approach an argument you need to approach the conversation and identify an issue, situation, and frame a good question. Framing the question allows you to develop a good question that had identified the situation and to whom your are trying to answer this question for.  Framing is the "lens" of the conversation. Understanding context can lead your wiring to many different outcomes like the development of an argument or the need to do further research. Greene says, "If you see inquiry as a means of entering conversations, then you will understand research as a social process."

Framing is a concept of writing the makes you pick a perspective on a topic and write you that focus.  Your paper follows this structure of picking a perspective by constantly giving it support. The main metaphor for framing is that framing is "the lens , or perspective, from which writers present their arguments."  To do this you would have to "manipulate the camera lens," change the way the paper is written, to fit the "frame." Framing gives you four strategies in developing an argument. First, framing makes you state your position on a topic which can make the paper more memorable for a person also.  Second, define and describe the elements around your argument, this gives the reader something to respond to. Third, framing helps you specify your argument and fourth, it helps to organize your argument. Framing, which can also be a strategy for critical inquiry, allows a person to improve upon their argument with just a little witch in the lens.  Instead of just rambling to get a point across, framing allows a writer to state their position and set up a paper that allows for constructive counter arguments and information that supports your frame, so that the picture doesn't fall out.