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They Say, I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing
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They Say, I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing Unknown - 2015

by Graff, Gerald; Birkenstein, Cathy


Details

  • Title They Say, I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing
  • Author Graff, Gerald; Birkenstein, Cathy
  • Binding unknown
  • Edition 3 UNA
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Your Coach In A Box
  • Date 2015-02
  • ISBN 9781469028613

About the author

Gerald Graff, a Professor of English and Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago and 2008 President of the Modern Language Association of America, has had a major impact on teachers through such books as Professing Literature: An Institutional History, Beyond the Culture Wars: How Teaching the Conflicts Can Revitalize American Education, Clueless in Acadame: How Schooling Obscures the Life of the Mind.
Kathy Birkenstein is a lecturer in English at the University of Illinois at Chicago and co-director of the Writing in the Disciplines program. She has published essays on writing, most recently in College English, and, with Gerald Graff, in The Chronicle of Higher Eduction, Acadame, and College Composition and Communication. She has also given talks and workshops with Gerald at numerous colleges and is currently working on a study of common misunderstandings surrounding academic discourse.
Russel Durst, who edited the readings in this audiobook, is Head of the English Department at the University of Cincinnati, where he teaches courses in composition, writing pedagogy and research, English linguistics, and the Hebrew Bible as literature. A past president of the National Conference on Research in Language and Literacy, he is the author of several books, including Collision Course: Conflict, Negotiation, and Learning in College Composition.