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

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

By Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein

The best-selling book that demystifies academic writing

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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date: 06/11/2018
Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780393631678
ISBN-10: 0393631672
Language: English

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This book identifies the key rhetorical moves in academic writing. It shows students how to frame their arguments as a response to what others have said and provides templates to help them start making the moves. The fourth edition features many NEW examples from academic writing, a NEW chapter on Entering Online Discussions, and a thoroughly updated chapter on Writing in the Social Sciences. Finally, two NEW readings provide current examples of the rhetorical moves in action.

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.

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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.

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