Overview

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

Top ?Applicable Courses

English, Composition

Top ?Features

• Demystifies academic discourse
  

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

• Provides templates
  

  Giving students language as starting points for making the rhetorical moves that matter.

• Two books in one, with the rhetoric up front and the readings in the back, makes the book easy to use
  

  The two parts are linked by cross-references in the margins, leading from the rhetoric to specific examples in the readings and from the readings to the corresponding writing instruction.

• An anthology of 32 readings
  

  That provoke students to think — and write — about 4 important issues: Is fast food the new tobacco? Are 24, Family Guy, and Grand Theft Auto actually good for you? Is economic mobility just a dream? Is America over?

Top ?Content Summary

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Top ?About the Authors

Gerald Graff is Professor of English and Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago and 2008 President of the Modern Language Association of America.

Cathy Birkenstein is a lecturer in English at the University of Illinois at Chicago and co-director of the Writing in the Disciplines program.

Russel Durst is Head of the English Department at the University of Cincinnati.

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