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.
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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 / Okay, 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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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 "He Says Contends" |
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Using the Templates to Revise |
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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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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 "On Closer Examination" |
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Entering Conversations about Literature |
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Sixteen "The Data Suggest" |
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Writing in the Social Sciences |
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"Rise of the Machines" Is Not a Likely Future |
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness |
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Everything That Rises Must Converge |
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| Credits |
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| Acknowledgments |
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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.
