PoA MOVIE DISCUSSION.

[Carol]

Nightbreed wrote:
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> I wasn't taking your sig line as a whole argument, nor was I arguing. I was having a discussion, sorry if that seemed like an argument to you. Seriously, we are discussion Harry Potter films here, I'm not geek enough to argue about them.

Carol responds:

Sorry to be unclear. I was speaking as a former freshman composition teacher who taught "argument" (aka "persuasion") as a form of writing. "Argue" to me means to support a thesis (main point) with logical "arguments" (reasons) and evidence. I certainly wasn't speaking of "argument" in the sense of "quarrel." 

FWIW, I also say "literary criticism" where others might say "literary analysis." It has nothing to do with criticizing in the sense of finding fault with. Both "argument" and "criticism" are terms familiar to me from many years as a graduate student and composition teacher.

Let me rephrase and say that my sig line was not my whole position, just a small part of the case I was presenting. Does that make sense?

Carol, who is also just having a discussion