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Date Submitted: 03/25/2016 10:11 AM
Tayler Jones
6.05 Test Prep Journal
Part One
A. Rogerian Format for Argument
a. Carl Roger (psychologist)
b. “reconceptualizes our goals when we argue”
c. “attempt to reach common ground” with opposing side
d. goal: try to find a way for both arguments to win
e. Began to be in textbooks in 1970
B. Steps
f. Detailed description of the problem
g. Contexts in which other side can be valid
h. Contexts in which my side can be valid
i. Benefits to the other side if my side was adopted
C. Quotes
j. “It is only through the clash of adverse opinions that the remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied”- John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859
k. “The major barrier to mutual interpersonal communication is our very natural tendency to judge, to evaluate, to approve or disapprove, the statement of the other person or the other group.”
D. Goals
l. Convey to the reader that he is understood
m. Delineate (to portray in words; describe or outline with precision) the area within which he believes the reader’s position to be valid
n. Induce him to believe that he and the writer share certain moral qualities
o. "Rogerian argument has no conventional structure; in fact, users of the strategy deliberately avoid conventional persuasive structures and techniques because these devices tend to produce a sense of threat."
E. Parts
p. A discussion of the problem from both POV that uses value-neutral language
q. A discussion of the writer’s opponent’s POV and a selection of facts or assertions the writer might be willing to conceded to his opponent
r. A discussion of the writer’s POV and a selection of facts or assertions the writer’s opponent might be able to accept about his point of view
s. A thesis that establishes a compromise between these two points of view and represents concessions from both the writer and his opponent...