6.2 The Discussion's Art

1. The questions' handling — the repeat-and-answer discipline (the question restated; the answer to the point); the admission's grace ("I have not addressed that — it is a limitation I will consider").2. The defence without defensiveness — the argument's ground held where the research supports it; the concession where it does not.3. The peers' role — the mandatory participation (the course's collaborative design): the constructive question (the paper's argument tested, not the presenter diminished); the suggestion's specificity.