In my opinion, Graff does not give the student enough credit, as this neat little book tries to do all the work for you! Police mercilessness (particularly against African Americans) is not another subject in America, yet the ongoing shootings of young black men by cops in urban areas around the United States have turned it into an interesting issue generally.

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The “I say…” method is where you often see arguments happen, it gives a responds to “they say…” You don’t have to be intelligent to start an argument, but this method should apply to your everyday life. The definition of Academic writing is in many different forms, it follows the characteristics, examples, explanation and a list of published works where this writing is used. Our resources are crucial for knowledge lovers everywhere—so if you find all these bits and bytes useful, please pitch in. Still, the core of the book remains helping students identify and assimilate the basic moves that are inherent to academic writing, and therefore academic argument.

We understand that not everyone can donate right now, but if you can afford to contribute, we promise it will be put to good use. As such, one needs to bring the reader up to speed on where the discussion was ("They Say"), to make it clear why one's own contribution makes any sense. Part Two contains four chapters, which cover ways to respond to others' work, idetnifying one's own argument, introducing objections, and explaing the importance of a discussion. I saw it as an agenda for a college professor and former MLA President to get colleges to use his book.

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Graff and Birkenstein break down argumentative writing across genres to expose some of the strategies they’ve already discussed and explain how to decipher challenging texts.The only things that I've noticed to be confusing for people is their absolute negativity towards using "I" in essays (so I've figured out ways to be personal without using "I" or "me" or whatever else is taboo in a lot of academic writing), and the fact that people don't know how to fit the ten elements neatly into the five-paragraph essay because the book doesn't really go over essay organization.

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If you’re just starting out with academic writing, though, I think this would definitely be a good source to turn to.Now that I think about it, I don’t understand why I was introduced to it in college and not high school. Chapter 3, “‘As He Himself Puts It’: The Art of Quoting” explains how to incorporate quotations into one’s own writing. Graff and Birkenstein stress that students remember they are not writing in a vacuum but rather to a particular audience as part of a larger ongoing conversation. This cycle of procrastinating really hurt my ability to string together strong coherent essays, even in my first two essays for the class. Antonio, a Venetian merchant, complains to his friends, Salarino and Solanio, that a sadness has overtaken him and dulled his faculties, although he is at a loss to explain why.

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For example they use “they say…” as an example, always use quotation on something that somebody else said. If that’s the case, why is the simple act of refusing to be like everyone else, oftentimes, a punishable offense? I had my students read the whole book and then asked them to have 7 out of the 10 elements in their essays.Gillen states that science is a fundamentally argumentative process, and as such, many of the rhetorical moves that work across academic fields are especially suited to science writing.