Ch 4
“Yes / No / Okay,But”
Three Ways to Respond
The chapter immediately addresses a thinking problem that I often encounter. “I am not smart enough to disagree with the experts.” The chapter lays out three ways to respond to researchers ideas, agreeing, disagreeing, or a combination. I appreciate the simplified approach to get the writer started. I often struggle with how to get into the conversation with the researcher/author, but just simply stating my agreements and disagreements is simple and makes sense.
The disagreement templates are useful and looking at simple examples triggers many memories of reading similar sentences frames in the research paper that I am currently looking at.I also found the agreeing with a difference or addition to be thought provoking. Saying, “I agree that X benefits Y but I can also see it adding to Z…” This is a method that I will use in my upcoming action research paper. The “yes but …” statements are also clearly outlined but I find them to lack the strength of argument that I would want to convey in my writing.
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