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 and explains how to engage with the views of others. With a new chapter on researching conversations, new exercises, expanded support for reading, and a substantially revised chapter on how to revise, this edition of “They Say / I Say” is an even more practical companion for students than ever before.
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| Foreword: An Invitation to the Conversation |
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| Preface To The Fifth Edition |
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| Preface: Demystifying Academic Conversation |
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| Introduction: Entering the Conversation |
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Starting with What Others Are Saying |
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Three "As He Himself Puts It" |
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Four "Yes / No / Ok, But" |
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Distinguishing What You Say from What They Say |
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Six "Skeptics May Object" |
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Planting a Naysayer in Your Text |
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Seven "So What? Who Cares?" |
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PART 3 TYING IT ALL TOGETHER |
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107 | (16) |
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Nine "You Mean I Can Just Say It That Way?" |
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Academic Writing Doesn't Mean Setting Aside Your Own Voice |
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Ten "But Don't Get Me Wrong" |
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The Art of Metacommentary |
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Eleven "What I Really Want To Say Is" |
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PART 4 IN SPECIFIC ACADEMIC CONTEXTS |
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Twelve "I Take Your Point" |
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Entering Class Discussions |
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Thirteen Don't Make Them Scroll Up |
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177 | (10) |
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Entering Online Conversations |
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Fourteen What's Motivating This Writer? |
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Reading for the Conversation |
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Fifteen "But As Several Sources Suggest" |
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Sixteen "On Closer Examination" |
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Entering Conversations about Literature |
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Seventeen "The Data Suggest" |
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269 | (20) |
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Writing in the Social Sciences |
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289 | (2) |
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291 | (7) |
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The New Jim Crow: "Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness |
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298 | (14) |
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All Words Matter: The Manipulation behind "All Lives Matter" |
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312 | (14) |
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"Rise of the Machines" Is Not a Likely Future |
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326 | (5) |
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The Electoral College Embodies American Ideals |
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Roe Butt, Cy Borg, Ann Droid: Hint, They're Not Taking Your Job |
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| Credits |
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| Acknowledgments |
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| Glossary |
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| Index Of Templates |
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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.
