"They say / I say": the moves that matter in academic writing with readings

Preface to the fourth edition -- Preface: Demystifying academic conversation -- Introduction: Entering the conversation -- Part 1. "They say". "They say" : starting with what others are saying ; "Her point is" : the art of summarizing ; "As he himself puts it" : the art of quoting -- Part 2. "I say". "Yes / no / okay, but" : three ways to respond ; "And yet" : distinguishing what you say from what they say ; "Skeptics may object" : planting a naysayer in your text ; "So what? Who cares?" : saying why it matters -- Part 3. Tying it all together. "As a result" : connecting the parts ; "You mean I can just say it that way?" : academic writing doesn't mean setting aside your own voice ; "But don't get me wrong" : the art of metacommentary ; "He says contends" : using the templates to revise -- Part 4. In specific academic contexts. "I take your point" : entering class discussions ; Don't make them scroll up : entering online conversations ; What's motivating this writer? : reading for the conversation ; "Analyze this" : writing in the social sciences --

Readings. How can we bridge the differences that divide us? The "other side" is not dumb / Sean Blanda ; Why America is self-segregating / Danah Boyd ; The new Jim Crow / Michelle Alexander ; Hillbilly elegy / J. D. Vance ; Minority student clubs : segregation or integration? / Gabriela Moro ; Why rural America voted for Trump / Robert Leonard ; A tax system stacked against the 99 percent / Joseph E. Stiglitz ; Howard University commencement speech / Barack Obama

Is college the best option? Should everyone go to college? / Stephanie Owen and Isabel Sawhill ; The new liberal arts / Sanford J. Ungar ; Are too many people going to college? / Charles Murray ; Two years are better than four / Liz Addison ; Hidden intellectualism / Gerald Graff ; Blue-collar brilliance / Mike Rose ; Shut up about Harvard / Ben Casselman ; On the front lines of a new culture war / Steve Kolowich

Are we in a race against the machine? Is Google making us stupid? / Nicholas Carr ; Smarter than you think : how technology is changing our minds for the better / Clive Thompson ; Does texting affect writing? / Michaela Cullington ; How I learned to love Snapchat / Jenna Wortham ; Google, democracy, and the truth about Internet search / Carole Cadwalladr ; Go ahead : waste time on the Internet / Kenneth Goldsmith ; No need to call / Sherry Turkle ; Does a protest's size matter? / Zeynep Tufekci

What's gender got to do with it? Why women still can't have it all / Anne-marie Slaughter ; Why men still can't have it all / Richard Dorment ; I'm gay and African American. As a dad, I still have it easier than working moms / Raynard Kington ; From he to she in first grade / Laurie Frankel ; Teaching men to be emotionally honest / Andrew Reiner ; What about gender roles in same-sex relationships? / Stephen Mays ; Artificial intelligence's white guy problem / Kate Crawford ; Men without work / Nicholas Eberstadt

What's there to eat? Escape from the western diet / Michael Pollan ; Why don't convenience stores sell better food? / Olga Khazan ; Food as thought : resisting the moralization of eating / Mary Maxfield ; Don't blame the eater / David Zinczenko ; What you eat is your business / Radley Balko ; The extraordinary science of addictive ]unk food / Michael Moss ; How junk food can end obesity / David H. Freedman ; Expanding the national school lunch program to higher education / Sara Goldrick-Rab, Katharine Broton, Emily Brunjes Colo.

Preface --

Preface to "They Say/I Say" --

Introduction: Entering the conversation --

Part 1: "They Say": --

1: "They say": Starting with what others are saying --

2: "Her point is": Art of summarizing --

3: "As he himself puts it": The art of quoting --

Part 2: "I Say" --

4: "Yes / no / okay, but": Three ways to respond --

5: "And yet": Distinguishing what you say from what they say --

6: "Skeptics may object": Planting a naysayer in your text --

7: "So what? Who cares?": Saying why it matters --

Part 3: Tying It All Together: --

8: "As a result": Connecting the parts --

9: "Ain't so/Is not": Academic writing doesn't always mean setting aside your own voice --

10: "But don't get me wrong": The art of metacommentary --

Part 4: Entering the Conversation: --

11: "I take your point": Entering class discussions --

12: "What's motivating this writer?": Reading for the conversation --

13: "Analyze this": Writing in the social sciences / Erin Ackerman --

Readings: --

14: Is higher education worth the price? --

Are colleges worth the price of admission? / Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus --

The new liberal arts / Sanford J. Ungar --

Kenyon commencement speech / David Foster Wallace --

Two years are better than four / Liz Addison --

Why do you think they're called for-profit colleges? / Kevin Carey --

Are too many people going to college? / Charles Murray --

Blue-collar brilliance / Mike Rose --

A lifetime of student debt? Not likely / Robin Wilson.

15: Is pop culture actually good for you? --

Watching TV makes you smarter / Steven Johnson --

Thinking outside the idiot box / Dana Stevens --

Family Guy and Freud / Antonia Peacocke --

Small change: why the revolution will not be tweeted / Malcolm Gladwell --

Reforming Egypt in 140 characters? / Dennis Baron --

2b or not 2b? / David Crystal --

The I.M.s of Romeo and Juliet / Roz Chast --

Extra lives: Why video games matter / Tom Bissell --

The good, the bad, and the Daily show / Jason Zinser --

Hidden intellectualism / Gerald Graff --

16: Is fast food the new tobacco? --

Don't blame the eater / David Zincenko --

What you eat is your business / Radley Balko --

Junking junk food / Judith Warner --

Kentucky town of Manchester illustrates national obesity crisis / Wil Haygood --

Remarks to the NAACP / Michelle Obama --

Escape from the western diet / Michael Pollan --

Food as thought: Resisting the moralization of eating / Mary Maxfield --

Fat is a feminist issue / Susie Orbach --

Having it his way: the construction of masculinity in fast-food TV advertising / Carrie Packwood Freeman and Debra Merskin --

17: Why does it matter who wins the big game? --

Champion of the world / Maya Angelou --

Why sports matter / Wilfrid Sheed --

Women who hit very hard and how they've changed tennis / Michael Kimmelman --

In defense of cheering / Jennie Yabroff --

How I learned to love football / Felisa Rogers --

Move over boys, make room in the crease / Sara Maratta --

We, the public, place the best athletes on pedestals / William Moller --

Cheating and CHEATING / Joe Posnanski --

18: What's up with the American dream? --

Hiding from reality / Bob Herbert --

Is the American dream over? / Cal Thomas --

The American dream: dead, alive, or on hold? / Brandon King --

Income inequality: too big to ignore / Robert H. Frank --

Confronting inequality / Paul Krugman --

Up against Wal-Mart / Karen Olsson --

Progressive Wal-Mart. Really / Sebastian Mallaby --

Predatory lending and the devouring of the American dream / Constance M. Ruzich and A.J. Grant --

A more perfect union / Barack Obama --

Permissions, acknowledgments --

Acknowledgments --

Index of templates --

Index of authors and titles.

Preface to the fifth edition

Preface: Demystifying academic conversation

Introduction: Entering the conversation

Part 1. "They say". "They say": Starting with what others are saying

"Her point is": The art of summarizing

"As he himself puts it": The art of quoting

Part 2. "I say". "Yes / no / OK, but": Three ways to respond

"And yet": Distinguishing what you say from what they say

"Skeptics may object": Planting a naysayer in your text

"So what? Who cares?": Saying why it matters

Part 3. Tying it all together. "as a result": Connecting the parts

"You mean I can just say it that way?": Academic writing doesn't mean setting aside your own voice

"But don't get me wrong": The art of metacommentary

"What I really want to say is": Revising substantially

Part 4. In specific academic contexts. "I take your point": Entering class discussions

Don't make them scroll up: Entering online conversations

What's motivating this writer? Reading for the conversation

"But as several sources suggest": Research as conversation

"On closer examination": Entering conversations about literature

"The data suggest": Writing in the sciences

"Analyze this": Writing in the social sciences

Readings. Why care about the planet? "We are the wildfire": How to fight the climate crisis / Naomi Klein ; It's time for conservatives to own the climate-change issue / Dan Crenshaw ; Should we be more optimistic about fighting climate change? / Acice Chen and Vivek Murthy ; Banning plastic bags is great for the world, right? Not so fast / Ben Adler ; Choking the oceans with plastic / Charles J. Moore ; Mauna kea: The fight to preserve culture / Sandis Edward Waialae Wightman ; Elevated blood lead levels in children associated with the Flint drinking water crisis / Mona Hanna-Attisha, et al. ; Delivering fresh water: Critical infrastructure, environmental justice, and Flint, Michigan / Michael R. Greenberg

How can we bridge the differences that divide us? The "other side" is not dumb / Sean Blanda ; Why America is self-segregating / Danah Boyd ; All words matter: The manipulation behind "All Lives Matter" / Kelly Coryell ; The new Jim Crow / Michelle Alexander ; Could black english mean a prison sentence? / John McWhorter ; Hillbilly elegy / J. D. Vance ; What hillbilly elegy reveals about race in twenty-first-century America / Lisa R. Pruitt ; Jobs, crime, and culture: The threats that aren't / Suketu Mehta ; How much immigration is too much? The wrong debate / David Frum

What's college for? Should everyone go to college? / Stephanie Owen and Isabel Sawhill ; Are too many people going to college? / Charles Murray ; Two years are better than four / Liz Addison ; Why we need to keep the "community" in community college / Anna Clark ; Minority student clubs: Segregation or integration? / Gabriela Moro ; Hidden intellectualism / Gerald Graff ; Generation stress: The mental health crisis on campus / Sylvia Mathews Burwell ; The student loan trap: When debt delays life / Charles Fain Lehman

How is technology changing us? Go ahead: Waste time on the internet / Kenneth Goldsmith ; Has coronavirus made the internet better? / Jenna Wortham ; It turns out our tech gadgets aren't as isolating as experts say / Nicholas Brody ; How smartphones hijack our minds / Nicholas Carr ; Social media: The screen, the brain, and human nature / Justin Vinh ; Stop Googling. Let's talk. / Sherry Turkle ; Google, democracy, and the truth about internet search / Carole Cadwalladr ; Are we really as awful as we act online? / Agustín Fuentes

What's gender got to do with it? From he to she in first grade / Laurie Frankel ; It's time for "they" / Farhad Manjoo ; Liberals' astonishingly radical shift on gender / Damon Linker ; Why women still can't have it all / Anne-Marie Slaughter ; Why men still can't have it all / Richard Dorment ; The coronavirus is a disaster for feminism / Helen Lewis ; An end to sexism in gaming communities / Sanjana Ramanathan ; Why we need Title IX now more than ever / Monica Wright.