"They Say / I Say" with Readings

Name: "They Say / I Say" with Readings
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ISBN: 9781324070139

by Gerald Graff, Cathy Birkenstein, Russel Durst, Laura J. Panning Davies

6th Edition

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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Print ISBN	9781324070139
eText ISBN	9781324070153
Publisher	W. W. Norton & Company
Publishing Year	2024
Edition	6th Edition
Language	English

The 6th Edition of "They Say / I Say" with Readings provides college students with clear frameworks for academic writing, critical reading, and source-based research. Built around the core concept of academic conversation, this textbook helps undergraduate writers enter scholarly discussions by systematically connecting their own claims to the established positions of others.

The instructional progression guides students through essential rhetorical moves, offering explicit guidance and sentence templates for summarizing existing claims, incorporating direct quotations, addressing counterarguments, and deploying metacommentary. Students apply these analytical strategies directly to assigned readings that explore freedom of speech, technological change, climate issues, university education, and political divisions across contemporary society.

Expanding its pedagogical range, the volume includes a new chapter titled 'In My Experience,' which demonstrates how narrative anecdotes can enliven argumentative prose. This design supports first-year college composition classes and writing-intensive seminars that emphasize structured rhetorical practice.

Chapter PREFACE: Demystifying Academic Conversation
Chapter INTRODUCTION: Entering the Conversation
Chapter 1: “They Say”: Starting with What Others Are Saying
Chapter 2: “Her Point Is”: The Art of Summarizing
Chapter 3: “As He Himself Puts It”: The Art of Quoting
Chapter 4: “Yes / No / OK, But”: Three Ways to Respond
Chapter 5: “And Yet”: Distinguishing What You Say from What They Say
Chapter 6: “Skeptics May Object”: Planting a Naysayer in Your Text
Chapter 7: “In My Experience”: Using Stories to Energize Your Argument
Chapter 8: “So What? Who Cares?”: Saying Why It Matters
Chapter 9: “As a Result”: Connecting the Parts
Chapter 10: “You Mean I Can Just Say It That Way?”: Academic Writing Doesn’t Mean Setting Aside Your Own Voice
Chapter 11: “But Don’t Get Me Wrong”: The Art of Metacommentary
Chapter 12: “What I Really Want to Say Is”: Revising Substantially
Chapter 13: “I Take Your Point”: Entering Class Discussions
Chapter 14: What’s Motivating This Writer?: Reading for the Conversation
Chapter 15: “But As Several Sources Suggest”: Research as Conversation
Chapter 16: “On Closer Examination”: Entering Conversations about Literature
Chapter 17: “The Data Suggest”: Writing in the Sciences
Chapter 18: “Analyze This”: Writing in the Social Sciences
Chapter 19: “Help Me Understand...”: When Your “They Say” Is a Bot
Chapter 20: WHO GETS TO DECIDE WHAT FREEDOM IS?
- • NESRINE MALIK, The Myth of the Free Speech Crisis
- • KATHA POLLITT, The Left Needs Free Speech
- • ERIC HOLDER, Our Unfinished March
- • ARTHI SIVENDRA, Democracy: America’s Greatest Scam
- • MICHELLE ALEXANDER, The New Jim Crow
- • JOHN PFAFF, A Response to the ‘Standard Story’ about US Incarceration Rates
- • LUTICHA DOUCETTE, If You’re in a Wheelchair, Segregation Lives
- • CARISSA VÉLIZ, If AI Is Predicting Your Future, Are You Still Free?
- • MARTIN DEMPSEY, 90 Seconds Together
Chapter 21: HOW IS TECHNOLOGY CHANGING US?
- • KENNETH GOLDSMITH, Go Ahead: Waste Time on the Internet
- • CHRISTINE ROSEN, Keep Them Offline
- • NICHOLAS CARR, How Smartphones Hijack Our Minds
- • JUSTIN VINH, Social Media: The Screen, the Brain, and Human Nature
- • JOE GARCIA, Left Behind: Internet Access for People Behind Bars
- • ANNA ROMINA GUEVARRA, Here Come the Robot Nurses
- • LANA SWARTZ, In Praise of the Dollar Bill
- • CAROLE CADWALLADR, Google, Democracy, and the Truth about Internet Search
Chapter 22: WHY CARE ABOUT THE PLANET?
- • BEN ADLER, Banning Plastic Bags Is Great for the World, Right? Not So Fast
- • EMMA BARNES, The Fast and the Fashionable: How Your Closet Contributes to a Global Crisis
- • AYANA ELIZABETH JOHNSON, What I Know About the Ocean
- • DAVID WALLACE-WELLS, from The Uninhabitable Earth
- • ALICE CHEN AND VIVEK MURTHY, Should We Be More Optimistic about Fighting Climate Change?
- • MATT RIDLEY, Going Nuclear
- • SANDIS EDWARD WAIALAE WIGHTMAN, Mauna Kea: The Fight to Preserve Culture
- • DINA GILIO-WHITAKER, Environmental Justice Is Only the Beginning
Chapter 23: WHAT’S COLLEGE FOR?
- • CARINE M. FEYTEN, The Boys Are Doing Just Fine
- • RICHARD V. REEVES, No, the Boys Are Not Doing Just Fine
- • YAEL LENGA: Disability in Academia: Building Access and Building Futures
- • SYLVIA MATHEWS BURWELL, Generation Stress: The Mental Health Crisis on Campus
- • MIKE ROSE, Community College: The Great Equalizer?
- • ANNA CLARK, Why We Need to Keep the “Community” in Community College
- • GERALD GRAFF, Hidden Intellectualism
- • CHARLES FAIN LEHMAN, The Student Loan Trap: When Debt Delays Life
- • ANNA GIFTY OPOKU-AGYEMAN AND FENABA ADDO, Student Loan Forgiveness Critics Are Wrong about Who Benefits and Why
Chapter 24: HOW CAN WE BRIDGE THE DIFFERENCES THAT DIVIDE US?
- • SEAN BLANDA, The “Other Side” Is Not Dumb
- • YASCHA MOUNK, The Everyday Patriotism of Diverse Democracies
- • DAVID BROOKS, The Triumph of the Ukrainian Ideal
- • SUKETU MEHTA, Jobs, Crime, and Culture: The Threats That Aren’t
- • DAVID FRUM, How Much Immigration Is Too Much? The Wrong Debate
- • ANDRE M. PERRY, Addressing Poverty Can Heal an Increasingly Divided Country
- • KELLY CORYELL, All Words Matter: The Manipulation behind “All Lives Matter”
- • PAOLA RAMOS, Finding Latinx
- • BRYAN BETANCUR, It’s Time to Drop “Latinx”
Chapter Appendix: Citing What “They Say”