They Say I Say Analysis

In this module we started reading “They Say/I Say “By, Gerald Graff, Cathy Birkenstein, and Russel Durst. Our first two sections were the Introduction: Entering the conversation and “They Say pages 17-51. In the Introduction they start with telling us about the templates used to enter a conversation or civil discourse. Some of the templates used are “Many Americans assume that _______., I agree that _________.” These are great introductions to either a conversation or starting to recap something we have read. These are excellent templates and have helped me in other classes with papers I have written. They have also helped me with the posts that I have to do in classes, especially when responding to posts. In Chapter 1 they discussed more templates it also talks about “what they say.” One example from this is “The standard way of thinking …show more content…
I myself have never used APA formats or citation so this information was extremely valuable to me. I try very hard to make sure I cite everything so that there is never a question of plagiarism. Some of the things I read about I didn’t realize were plagiarism, which is great to know so that I do not make those mistakes at all moving forward.
We also had to take the article used from last week and explain it using the templates from “They say / I say” chapters that we read. I found this slightly difficult to start off as it is not how I would normally explain something. I did find it easier as I went through and started writing, I took a few times but I think I did a good job on it.
The research for our paper was interesting I didn’t know if I would be able to find any information that was of any real use. I found it surprising I found a lot of studies and quite a few that could answer my question well. It was interesting that I didn’t just find things that were all about one side there was information on both sides with