Robert. “Income inequality: Too Big to Ignore”. Graff‚ Gerald‚ Cathy Birkenstein‚ and Russel Durst. "They Say‚ I Say": The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing : With Readings. New York: Norton‚ 2012. 432-447 Print. Murray‚ Harry. "Deniable Degradation: The Finger-Imaging Of Welfare Recipients." Sociological Forum 15.1 (2000): 39. Academic Search Premier. Web. 28 May 2013. Olsson‚ Karen. “Up Against WAl-Mart.” Graff‚ Gerald‚ Cathy Birkenstein‚ and Russel Durst. "They Say‚ I Say": The Moves
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Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein introduce the readers with the use of writing templates. As a way of hooking their audience and making the material relatable to all readers‚ they give a comparison. They instructed the reader to think about a complex task such as basketball‚ cooking‚ or driving a car. The reason behind this movement was to prove that writing is no different and is simply a matter of practicing routine movements of wordings. Thus‚ they introduce the reader with templates. Graff and
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So much of people’s lives are impacted by social media‚ and there are many debates that whether or not it has a positive or negative effects on society. Graff‚ Gerald. “Hidden Intellectualism.” “They Say/I Say” The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing with Readings. Gerald Graff‚ Cathy Birkenstein‚ and Russel Durst. New York: Norton‚ 2012.
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“Text messaging or texting‚ as it’s more commonly called- is the process of sending and receiving typed messages via a cellular phone (Graff‚ Birkenstein and Durst).” It is a common source of communication now because teenagers use it frequently and business people use it as well to communicate to other people without having to get on a phone call with another. Many people when their typing use
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The term gluten-free tends to be synonymous with prick or hippie in many people’s minds. They see gluten free diet followers as a cult that brainwashes its followers into eliminating an essential part of their daily diets for an abstract goal of consumer awareness. However‚ few gluten free followers choose their lifestyle just to follow the crowd. On the contrary‚ many of these supposedly brainwashed people are actually independent thinkers‚ concerned citizens‚ and compassionate human beings. For
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Some of these critics tell us that contrary to popular belief‚ "far from making us smarter‚ online technologies are actually making us dumber." (Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein. 2006‚ 168) On the other hand‚ there are people who challenge this school of thought; they bring up the point that students are able to find a target audience and tweak their writing to appeal to their directed audience because of the use of social media. This whole time the author’s advice or opinion on the use of technology
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Chris Lee FYS 20 August 2012 In the introduction to “They Say/ I Say”: the Moves That Matter in Academic Writing‚ Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein provide templates designed to help with academic thinking and writing. Specifically‚ Graff and Birkenstein argue that the types of writing templates they offer realistically help set up a conversation and argument. As the authors themselves put it‚ “In our view‚ then‚ the best academic writing has one underlying feature: it is deeply engaged
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How the Media Affects Women’s Self Esteem In today’s society and even past decades‚ women have been expected to live up to certain societal standards. Photo-shopped models in magazines‚ commercials‚ and other forms of advertisement define what is socially acceptable. Stick thin leading ladies epitomize the acceptable figure for women to attain. These different media‚ as well as these portrayals of beauty‚ are the constant goal for women around the world‚ especially young women‚ and the impact has
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good or bad. This bibliography can be used by anyone who wants to decide if watching TV is good or bad‚ either for their children‚ or themselves. Johnson‚ Steven. “Watching TV Makes You Smarter.” They Say / I Say With Readings. Ed. Gerald Graff‚ Cathy Birkenstein‚ Russel Durst. New York: Norton‚ 2012. 277-294. Print. The argument in Johnsons article is that media has had to get more cognitively challenging to keep pulling the attention of viewers. He explains how he believes watching television can
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In Paul Krugman’s Confronting Inequality‚ we are warned‚ as citizens of the United States‚ of the damages of high and rising inequality within our country. The inequity being described is between the wealthy 1% of our nation and the 99% of the rest of the population. The author depicts America as a place where there is unclear economic progress for the middle class while the share of economic growth in the past 3 decades has gone to the wealthy minority. Krugman‚ next describes the damages to our
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