Kenny Levine week 2

After reading the first couple chapters of Thank You For Arguing, I learned some new things about rhetorical strategies that I hadn't known previously.  For example, I think it is helpful to understand what your objective is in an argument.  There have been countless times where I have been in an argument, and in order to get what I want, I will simply start rattling off a bunch of points that don't help my argument, and in the end, it hurts my case.  Another thing I learned about was how important tense was in an argument.  In chapter 3, Heinrichs discussed the three core issues in an argument: blame, value, and choice and how the tense has an effect on each value.  I had never thought that tense usage had an effect on an argument, but after reading about it in TYFA, I now try to pay attention during arguments to the tenses that people are using.  I have also noticed that when I argue with others, I often used past tense to blame people in order to make them feel badly for what they did.  I really enjoyed reading the first chapters of Thank You For Arguing because it gave me tools that I can incorporate into my everyday life.