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"They say/I say" : the moves that matter in academic writing / Gerald Graff, Cathy Birkenstein.
LIBRA PE1431 .G73 2006
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Graff, Gerald.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Rhetoric--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- English language.
- Persuasion (Rhetoric)--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Persuasion (Rhetoric).
- Report writing--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Report writing.
- Genre:
- Handbooks and manuals.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 181 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W. W.Norton, [2006]
- Contents:
- Preface: Demystifying Academic Conversation ix
- Introduction: Entering the Conversation 1
- Part 1 "They Say" 15
- 1 "They Say": Starting with What Others Are Saying 17
- 2 "Her Point Is": The Art of Summarizing 28
- 3 "As He Himself Puts It": The Art of Quoting 39
- Part 2 "I Say" 49
- 4 "Yes / No / Okay, But": Three Ways to Respond 51
- 5 "And Yet": Distinguishing What You Say from What They Say 64
- 6 "Skeptics May Object": Planting a Naysayer in Your Text 74
- 7 "So What? Who Cares?": Saying Why It Matters 88
- Part 3 Tying It All Together 99
- 8 "As a Result": Connecting the Parts 101
- 9 "Ain't so / Is Not": Academic Writing Doesn't Mean Setting Aside Your Own Voice 115
- 10 "In Other Words": The Art of Metacommentary 123
- Entering Class Discussions: A Brief Appendix 133
- Don't Blame the Eater / David Zinczenko 139
- Hidden Intellectualism / Gerald Graff 142
- The Empire of Images in Our World of Bodies / Susan Bordo 149.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0393924092
- OCLC:
- 63108472
- Publisher Number:
- 9780393924091
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