In this chapter of They Say, I Say – “Planting a Naysayer in Your Text”, they are mostly talking about ways to introduce objections as a so called naysayer. Answering objections on a convincing way can give you more voice and therefore persuade your critics, which is what you want. Bringing in counterarguments shows that you have respect for readers as well as for the objection. Counterarguments allow for open mindedness, where as if you dont you can come across as close minded. You are leaving your reader with questions and concerned left unanswered. You have to embrace the voice of others when representing an objection, you need to answer the objection persuasively. By introducing this objection into a paragraph you’re taking a chance of your readers to find their objections more interesting than your own. So it is important that you continue on with this for more than several sentences or even for a paragraph. It is also important that you don’t totally refute the objection, as its important to say “yes” to some parts of it or even give a “yes but no” answer. You want to be able to agree with them to some point but then continue on with why you think they are wrong. For example in the book they gave an example of “Although I grant that the book is poorly organized, I still maintain that it raises an important issue”. Here they are acknowledging that even though the book wasn’t properly structured they can still agree that the book holds some valid and significant issues. This is really important for allowing that connection between you and the objection, its showing that you have respect for them. Although you’re trying to make an objection against the critic it’s okay to add some sort of agreement in there, for it makes the argument even stronger.