Commentary On The Book 'They Say, I Say' By Mary Shelley

The book “They say, I say” written by Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein provides a useful method of teaching academic writing. Each chapter has different contents like chapter two is the Art of Summarizing, chapter three is the Art of Quoting and chapter six is Planting a Naysayer in Your Tex Every chapter has a unique understanding and the specific way to teach that how to use correctly. All of these learning processes in this book will make your personal writing skills inventory shine. Summarizing is an important point that using in outline other’s argument. Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein’s theory of understanding author’s argument and write own views is extremely useful because it sheds light on the difficult problem of correct view from an author, but concentrate on own argument. To build a vivid and accurate content, they advise that using signal verbs to describe the action. It is difficult to organize a standard summary in an essay for me because of lacking confidence in using own thoughts, understanding authors’ outlooks and writing skills; however, this chapter strengthens my ability of summarization. …show more content…
Thus, selecting a right quotation, then comprehending the meaning of the quotation you choose, eventually, thinking the connection between quotation and your own content is a significant part of learning quotation initially. Except these important steps, explaining the relevant reason why you choose is also important. According to the templates in chapter three, it gives us two examples to help us avoid some mistakes such as using “Orwell asserts that” or “Orwell’s assertion is that” instead of writing “Orwell asserts an idea that” or “A quote by Shakespeare.” (p.