{"id":194,"date":"2017-06-11T22:33:18","date_gmt":"2017-06-11T22:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/hzhang4\/?p=194"},"modified":"2017-06-11T22:33:18","modified_gmt":"2017-06-11T22:33:18","slug":"another-strategy-from-kantz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/hzhang4\/2017\/06\/11\/another-strategy-from-kantz\/","title":{"rendered":"Another strategy from kantz"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kantz did not only help me when I was in the researching process. Her guidance also enabled me to have a clearer awareness to what argument actually is: writing an original persuasive argument based on sources requires me to apply material to a problem or to use it to answer a question, rather than simply repeat is or evaluate it.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

There was one thing I did a lot before: I usually extracted various perspectives from various articles, and then I organized them together as my own perspectives and arguments. Now I realized that I was never making my own arguments at that time. I was only still stating and reporting others’ arguments.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

kantz does not mean that we cannot establish our own arguments based on others perspectives. what she is emphasizing is that our argument should never be just a mixture of other people’s ideas. Our argument should also represent our own perspectives, standpoints, and solutions to the issues.<\/strong> Arguments like those can be considered effective and meaningful.<\/p>\n

For example, here are some steps we can do when we are making our own arguments:<\/p>\n