They Say, I Say

In the book They Say, I Say by Birkenstein and Graff, the first chapter discusses the process of making a more engaging essay and also how to discuss what you think about the subject or how you feel about what author has said in the essay. One of the processes that chapter one focuses on is the "They say, I say" process which basically is a way of discussing opposing views and debating with an argument that can be applied from the writing, it is having an engaging discussion in which one person is talking about what the other might say in order to counter the argument by using that point to make their point on why they are correct (Birkenstein, Graff 8). Throughout the first chapter we are introduced to many authors such as George Orwell,
by way of excerpts of their writings that show examples of They say, I say. George Orwell's excerpt was carried out in a manner that shows his opposing views but subtle enough to let us as readers not be persuaded by what he was saying allowing us to make out own decisions. Â Without using the words, They and I, Orwell was able to prove the qualities by inserting his view and showing there are naysayers who don't necessarily agree with him therefore giving him a point for making his statement.