In the book They Say/ I Say: The Move That Mattes in Academic Writing, there are examples of templates to use in academic writing given in the introduction. The templates are designed to express and present a writer’s ideas in a clear and orderly way. The authors, Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein, argue that in order to have an effective piece of academic writing you must not only state your own ideas, but to present conflicting ideas and respond to them with your own thoughts. The templates offer a way to accomplish these points in a well ordered manner. Even though some famous pieces of writing use the template that the authors gave, some people feel that the templates could smother their creativity or using them would be considered plagiarism.
