They Say / I Say: The Moves That Matter In Academic Writing

Gerald Graff; Cathy Birkenstein

ISBN 10: 0393924092 / ISBN 13: 9780393924091

Published by W. W. Norton & Company, 2006

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: They Say / I Say: The Moves That Matter In Academic Writing
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393924092
• ISBN 13: 9780393924091
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 7 ounces

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Synopsis

Identifying the moves that matter in academic writing in ways that students can readily understand and apply.

"They Say / I Say" shows that writing well means mastering some key rhetorical moves, the most important of which involves summarizing what others have said ("they say") to set up one’s own argument ("I say"). In addition to explaining the basic moves, this book provides writing templates that show students explicitly how to make these moves in their own writing.

About the Authors

Gerald Graff, Emeritus Professor of English and Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago and 2008 President of the Modern Language Association of America, has had a major impact on teachers through such books as Professing Literature: An Institutional History, Beyond the Culture Wars: How Teaching the Conflicts Can Revitalize American Education, and Clueless in Academe: How Schooling Obscures the Life of the Mind.

Cathy Birkenstein is a lecturer in English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has published essays on writing in College English, and, with Gerald Graff in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Academe, and College Composition and Communication.