that article and the website helped me better understand how to look at this research paper we have to do. It makes sense to start with some comman agreeable ground in these papers. If you start out offending people right away they will never listen to your side and even not consider your side. you want to convince people and allure them your way, not push them away. i think also that you must listen to the other side of the paper or disagreement then you can fully disagree with it with more understanding. we have to come at this paper with more then one point of view and with more then one solution to the problem. we may find more then one solution in the othersides agruments, so we should take the time and knowledge them. when writing our own papers have some one on the other side read the paper if you have the time to do so and listen to see what they have to say to it. see if they come up with anything you can add to the paper to make it better, and less one sided. they can offer maybe more common ground, another solution to the problem that you may not have seen, or even another perspective. this article and website helped me understand how to write a good agrument paper, although i know it will be tuff to keep it to two sides instead of my own side.