They Say / I Say by Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein

They Say / I Say by Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein

The central insight is that academic writing is not the presentation of your ideas in isolation — it is entering a conversation, and every argument must begin by summarising what someone else has said.

The book teaches this through templates, which sounds mechanical and is not: fill-in structures for summarising a view fairly, agreeing with a difference, disagreeing with reasons, planting a naysayer in your own text, and answering the question of who cares and so what. Students who use them stop writing summaries and start writing arguments.

The most widely assigned academic writing textbook in the English-speaking world.

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