"They Say / I Say": The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing (Third Edition)

Graff, Gerald; Birkenstein, Cathy

ISBN 10: 0393935841 / ISBN 13: 9780393935844

Published by W. W. Norton & Company, 2014

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: "They Say / I Say": The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing (Third Edition)
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393935841
• ISBN 13: 9780393935844
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 3rd Edition
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 10 ounces

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Synopsis

The best-selling book on academic writing―in use at more than 1,500 schools.

“They Say / I Say” identifies the key rhetorical moves in academic writing, showing students how to frame their arguments in the larger context of what others have said and providing templates to help them make those moves. And, because these moves are central across all disciplines, the book includes chapters on writing in the sciences, writing in the social sciences, and―new to this edition―writing about literature.

About the Author

Gerald Graff, a 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.