Reading Responses/Discussion/Applying and Exploring:

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2. I really like this addition to the article, it gave me a more detailed way to understand how the style of writing has not only begun before any of current writers times, but before previous writers as well. It makes sense for how a write is to sit and analyze what a conversation or topic to write about is about before jumping feet first into the discussion or writing for yourself, not only does it help you as a conversationalist but also as a writer, to know what the heck you're talking about! I believe that Greene included this exerpt by Burke to better clairfy that no matter how much research, listening or writing you do, you will never be ahead of the topic at hand.
3.Framing is creating basically a picture around what your topic is. In the passage Greene compares it to "Taking a picture of friends" (pg. 14). Where you would focus the camera to capture the image you want to keep. I see framing as another metaphor, like paving a one way road. You pave the road so that it is the only way to a destination, rather than a highway, with several lanes traveling in both directions with multiple routes and alternitive ways to think. Framing gives the writer control to take the reader to the acquired concept of the idea. When reading a framed work, one is given only one way to consume the information.

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2. I would agree that Greene's work does sound like a conversational piece with a student or group of students, but I feel that he lacks the framing of part of his agruement when he branches off to give some examples. I.E : page 17 with the students exerpt. I found this piece not similiar and not at all conversationalize. It does somewhat explain how to vaugely frame a piece, but I feel that the student does not convey this task very well either.