They Say/I Say Templates Making those Views Something You Say: Why Templates? I have always believed that ______. Academic writing requires presenting your sources and When I was a child, I used to think that ______. your ideas effectively to readers. According to Graff and Birkenstein, the first element in the process involves Writing a Summary: “entering a conversation about ideas” between you—the She demonstrates that ______. writer—and your sources to reflect your critical thinking In fact, they celebrate the fact that ______. (ix). The templates allow you, the writer, to organize your ideas in relationship to your thesis, supporting evidence, Introducing a Quote: opposing evidence, and the conclusion of the argument. X insists, “______.” As the prominent philosopher X puts it, “______.” The Most Important Templates: According to X, “______.” On the one hand, ______. On the other hand, In her book, Book Title, X maintains that ______. ______. X complicates matters further when she writes that Author X contradicts herself. At the same time that she ______. argues ______, she also implies ______. I agree that ______. Disagreeing: She argues ______, and I agree because ______. I think that X is mistaken because she overlooks Her argument that ______is supported by new ______. research showing that ______. I disagree with X’s view that ______because, as In recent discussions of ______, a controversial issue recent research has shown, ______. has been whether ______. On the one hand, some Introducing Your Point of View: argue that ______. On the other hand, however, others X overlooks what I consider an important point about argue that ______. ______. I wholeheartedly endorse what X calls ______. Introducing Standard Views: Americans today tend to believe that ______. My discussion of X is in fact addressing the larger matter Conventional wisdom has it that ______. of ______. My whole life I have heard it said that ______. These conclusions will have significant applications in ______as well as in ______.

Graff, Gerald and Cathy Birkenstein. They Say/I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing. New York: Norton, 2006.

They Say/I Say Templates Making those Views Something You Say: Why Templates? I have always believed that ______. Academic writing requires presenting your sources and When I was a child, I used to think that ______. your ideas effectively to readers. According to Graff and Birkenstein, the first element in the process involves Writing a Summary: “entering a conversation about ideas” between you—the She demonstrates that ______. writer—and your sources to reflect your critical thinking In fact, they celebrate the fact that ______. (ix). The templates allow you, the writer, to organize your ideas in relationship to your thesis, supporting evidence, Introducing a Quote: opposing evidence, and the conclusion of the argument. X insists, “______.” As the prominent philosopher X puts it, “______.” The Most Important Templates: According to X, “______.” On the one hand, ______. On the other hand, In her book, Book Title, X maintains that ______. ______. X complicates matters further when she writes that Author X contradicts herself. At the same time that she ______. argues ______, she also implies ______. I agree that ______. Disagreeing: She argues ______, and I agree because ______. I think that X is mistaken because she overlooks Her argument that ______is supported by new ______. research showing that ______. I disagree with X’s view that ______because, as In recent discussions of ______, a controversial issue recent research has shown, ______. has been whether ______. On the one hand, some Introducing Your Point of View: argue that ______. On the other hand, however, others X overlooks what I consider an important point about argue that ______. ______. I wholeheartedly endorse what X calls ______. Introducing Standard Views: Americans today tend to believe that ______. My discussion of X is in fact addressing the larger matter Conventional wisdom has it that ______. of ______. My whole life I have heard it said that ______. These conclusions will have significant applications in ______as well as in ______.

Graff, Gerald and Cathy Birkenstein. They Say/I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing. New York: Norton, 2006.