This is the book that demystifies academic writing and shows how to engage with the views of others with practical advice and readings that represent a multitude of perspectives and disciplines. Extensively revised thanks to feedback from our community of adopters, this edition features a new chapter on research, new exercises, expanded support for reading, and twenty-six new readings about five important questions that matter, including the new chapter “Why Care about the Planet?”
Author(s): Gerald Graff (Author), Cathy Birkenstein (Author), Russel Durst (Author)
Edition: Fifth Edition(With readings)
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Year: 2021
Language: English
Pages: 816 pages
COVER
Publisher’s Notice
WHAT THEY’RE SAYING ABOUT “THEY SAY / I SAYâ€
HALF-TITLE PAGE
TITLE PAGE
COPYRIGHT PAGE
DEDICATION PAGE
CONTENTS
PREFACE TO THE FIFTH EDITION
PREFACE: Demystifying Academic Conversation
INTRODUCTION: Entering the Conversation
PART 1 “THEY SAYâ€
ONE “THEY SAYâ€: Starting with What Others Are Saying
TWO “HER POINT ISâ€: The Art of Summarizing
THREE “AS HE HIMSELF PUTS ITâ€: The Art of Quoting
PART 2 “I SAYâ€
FOUR “YES / NO / OK, BUTâ€: Three Ways to Respond
FIVE “AND YETâ€: Distinguishing What You Say from What They Say
SIX “SKEPTICS MAY OBJECTâ€: Planting a Naysayer in Your Text
SEVEN “SO WHAT? WHO CARES?â€: Saying Why It Matters
PART 3 TYING IT ALL TOGETHER
EIGHT “AS A RESULTâ€: Connecting the Parts
NINE “YOU MEAN I CAN JUST SAY IT THAT WAY?â€: Academic Writing Doesn’t Mean Setting Aside Your Own Voice
TEN “BUT DON’T GET ME WRONGâ€: The Art of Metacommentary
ELEVEN “WHAT I REALLY WANT TO SAY ISâ€: Revising Substantially
PART 4 IN SPECIFIC ACADEMIC CONTEXTS
TWELVE “I TAKE YOUR POINTâ€: Entering Class Discussions
THIRTEEN DON’T MAKE THEM SCROLL UP: Entering Online Conversations
FOURTEEN WHAT’S MOTIVATING THIS WRITER?: Reading for the Conversation
David Zinczenko, Don’t Blame the Eater
FIFTEEN “BUT AS SEVERAL SOURCES SUGGESTâ€: Research as Conversation
SIXTEEN “ON CLOSER EXAMINATIONâ€: Entering Conversations about Literature
SEVENTEEN “THE DATA SUGGESTâ€: Writing in the Sciences
EIGHTEEN “ANALYZE THISâ€: Writing in the Social Sciences
READINGS
NINETEEN WHY CARE ABOUT THE PLANET?
Naomi Klein, “We Are the Wildfireâ€: How to Fight the Climate Crisis
Dan Crenshaw, It’s Time for Conservatives to Own the Climate-Change Issue
Alice Chen and Vivek Murthy, Should We Be More Optimistic about Fighting Climate Change?
Ben Adler, Banning Plastic Bags Is Great for the World, Right? Not So Fast
Charles J. Moore, Choking the Oceans with Plastic
Sandis Edward Waialae Wightman, Mauna Kea: The Fight to Preserve Culture
Mona Hanna-Attisha, Jenny Lachance, Richard Casey Sadler, and Allison Champney Schnepp, Elevated Blood Lead Levels in Children Associated with the Flint Drinking Water Crisis
Michael R. Greenberg, Delivering Fresh Water: Critical Infrastructure, Environmental Justice, and Flint, Michigan
TWENTY HOW CAN WE BRIDGE THE DIFFERENCES THAT DIVIDE US?
Sean Blanda, The “Other Side†Is Not Dumb
Danah Boyd, Why America Is Self-Segregating
Kelly Coryell, All Words Matter: The Manipulation behind “All Lives Matterâ€
Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow
John McWhorter, Could Black English Mean a Prison Sentence?
J. D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy
Lisa R. Pruitt, What Hillbilly Elegy Reveals about Race in Twenty-First-Century America
Suketu Mehta, Jobs, Crime, and Culture: The Threats That Aren’t
David Frum, How Much Immigration Is Too Much? The Wrong Debate
TWENTY-ONE WHAT’S COLLEGE FOR?
Stephanie Owen and Isabel Sawhill, Should Everyone Go to College?
Charles Murray, Are Too Many People Going to College?
Liz Addison, Two Years Are Better Than Four
Anna Clark, Why We Need to Keep the “Community†in Community Colleges
Gabriela Moro, Minority Student Clubs: Segregation or Integration?
Gerald Graff, Hidden Intellectualism
Sylvia Mathews Burwell, Generation Stress: The Mental Health Crisis on Campus
Charles Fain Lehman, The Student Loan Trap: When Debt Delays Life
TWENTY-TWO HOW IS TECHNOLOGY CHANGING US?
Kenneth Goldsmith, Go Ahead: Waste Time on the Internet
Jenna Wortham, Has Coronavirus Made the Internet Better?
Nicholas Brody, It Turns Out Our Tech Gadgets Aren’t as Isolating as Experts Say
Nicholas Carr, How Smartphones Hijack Our Minds
Justin Vinh, Social Media: The Screen, the Brain, and Human Nature
Sherry Turkle, Stop Googling. Let’s Talk.
Carole Cadwalladr, Google, Democracy, and the Truth about Internet Search
AgustÃn Fuentes, Are We Really as Awful as We Act Online?
TWENTY-THREE WHAT’S GENDER GOT TO DO WITH IT?
Laurie Frankel, From He to She in First Grade
Farhad Manjoo, It’s Time for “Theyâ€
Damon Linker, Liberals’ Astonishingly Radical Shift on Gender
Anne-Marie Slaughter, Why Women Still Can’t Have It All
Richard Dorment, Why Men Still Can’t Have It All
Helen Lewis, The Coronavirus Is a Disaster for Feminism
Sanjana Ramanathan, An End to Sexism in Gaming Communities
Monica Wright, Why We Need Title IX Now More Than Ever
CREDITS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INDEX OF TEMPLATES
INDEX OF AUTHORS AND TITLES
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
