
The fourth edition of They Say, I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing by Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein, provides a comprehensive guide to academic writing, focusing on the importance of effectively incorporating and responding to other perspectives in one's own writing. The book emphasizes the “they say, I say” model, encouraging students to engage in a dialogue with existing scholarly conversations. It offers practical templates and strategies for introducing, summarizing, and responding to different viewpoints, helping students to develop their own arguments and analyses.