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

by Gerald Graff, Cathy Birkenstein

Overview

Writing support and readings that demystify academic writing, reading, and research

Used and loved by millions of students for its lively and practical advice, this is the book that shows the key rhetorical moves in academic writing demystifies academic writing and explains how to engage with the views of others. With a new chapter on researching conversations, new exercises, expanded support for reading, and 23 new readings about five important questions that matter, this edition of “They Say / I Say” is an even more of a practical companion for students than ever before.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393542370
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	07/15/2021
Edition description:	Fifth High School Edition
Pages:	832
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 7.90(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

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.