They Say / I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing by Cathy Birkenstein, Gerald Graff

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

Cathy Birkenstein, Gerald Graff

181 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction education informative slow-paced

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"They Say / I Say" shows that writing well means mastering some key rhetorical moves, the most important of which involves summarizing what others have said ("they say") to set up one\'s own argument ("I say"). In addition to explaining the basic ...

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