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W. W. Norton & Company : College Books

They Say / I Say

Highlights

Demystifies academic discourse, identifying the moves that matter in academic writing in ways that students can readily understand and apply.

Provides templates, giving students the actual language and forms that constitute these important rhetorical moves.

Shows students that writing is always part of a larger conversation and demonstrates how to engage in a lively dialogue in their writing with other writers and thinkers.

User friendly. Graff and Birkenstein practice what they preach about good writing, exemplifying the very moves that they ask students to make.