In the first few pages of the book They Say/I Say, the author describes his supposition of how the most effective and alluring academic compositions are developed. He defines an attractive selection of academic writing as using simple tools to provoke an argumentative mindset in the reader which is naturally engaging. He suggests that simply by applying a common template that incorporates an exterior opinion from any party, one can truly begin to produce a captivating academic dissertation. Continuing in the same direction, I agree that writing should be in response to another's viewpoint; whether it is in conjunction with their stance or not. It is not necessarily the controversy that attracts a reader, but rather how the author "puts his own oar" into already existent topics (as the book would put it).

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