As I read chapter “Planting the Naysayer in Your Text” from They Say I Say, I found myself interested in a couple different ideas that were presented throughout the chapter. Right from the first page I thought the idea that criticism can actually work to our advantage. Instead of being upset by the critics, we can use their hateful words to make our work stronger which can even give them less to critic. By being aware and acknowledging the opposing opinions we can then add a counter agrument into our work and make it a stronger piece. On page 83 the quote, “Once you see writing as an act of entering a conversation, you should also see how opposing arguments can work for you rather than against you” really opened my eyes because it makes sense how we should add our criticism right into our papers so critics arent even able to make their opinions afterwards since we already explained their opinions and counteracted them. The templates were very useful because they gave me a physical example of how to effectively execute the idea of adding the naysayer in my work. The templates are set up in a way where I can easily switch around the words to fit into my papers as well. One of the templates explained how to name the naysayers without disrespectfully labelling or stereotyping them because that can cause backlash. A template also showed me how to casually introduce an objection which can be a good tool to make sure you work doesn’t look like youre too focused on proving the opposing side wrong. This chapter also gives inciteful ways to represent objections fairly so we don’t mock anothers’ opinion and to answer the objections successfully and persuasively to make sure the reader doesn’t end up agreeing with the opposing argument rather than yours. It was also apparent that we should make sure to stand our ground with our argument by making concessions and the most productive arguments end with a solution that incorporates both sides.