They Say/ I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing, With Readings

Graff, Gerald; Birkenstein, Cathy; Durst, Russel

ISBN 10: 0393931749 / ISBN 13: 9780393931747

Published by W W Norton & Co Inc, 2008

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Synopsis:

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. Now available in two versions, with and without an anthology of 32 readings.

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.

Russel Durst is a professor of English at the University of Cincinnati, where he teaches courses in composition, writing pedagogy and research, English linguistics, and the Hebrew Bible as literature. A past president of the National Conference on Research in Language and Literacy, he is the author of several books, including Collision Course: Conflict, Negotiation, and Learning in College Composition.

Bibliographic Details

Title: They Say/ I Say: The Moves That Matter in ...
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Publication Date: 2008
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: very_good