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They Say / I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing
Contributor(s): Graff, Gerald (Author), Birkenstein, Cathy (Author)

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 ISBN: 0393631672     ISBN-13: 9780393631678
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
OUR PRICE: $29.21  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: June 2018
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BISAC Categories:
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Writing - General
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Rhetoric
Dewey: 808.042
LCCN: 2018004898
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.2" W x 7.3" L (0.61 lbs) 352 pages
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
 
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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.

Contributor Bio(s): Birkenstein, Cathy: - 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.Graff, Gerald: - Gerald Graff, a 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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