Cody Johnson
Mr. Huseman, Nathan
Cody Johnson
9/12/17
Agonism in Academic Discourse response
In the article “Agonism in Academic Discourse”, Deborah Tannen explains that agonism, is, ritualized adversatives, in academic discourse is the source of both knowledge and personal suffering in academics. Academic discourse is a battle that can leads to a variety of negative outcomes, which most of them have reasonable as well as personal. Among these negative outcomes assuming that critical dialogue is with negative responses, at the expense of other types of thinking. Another claim that is made in the article “Agonism in Academic Discourse” the requirement that students have to search for weaknesses in their work or other people work instead of
