They Say / I Say: The Moves that Matter in Persuasive Writing by Graff, Gerald, Birkenstein, Cathy published by W. W. Norton & Company (2007)

2. Write various summaries of David Zinczenko’s “Don’t Blame the Eater”. Write the 1st one for an essay arguing that, opposite to what Zinczenko claims, there are reasonably cheap and handy choices to fast-food eating places. Write the second one for an essay that consents with Zinczenko in blaming fast-food businesses for younger weight problems, yet questions his view that bringing complaints opposed to these businesses is a sound reaction to the matter. evaluate your summaries: even though they're of an analogous article, they need to glance very varied. 3 “AS HE HIMSELF places IT” The paintings of Quoting A KEY PREMISE of this booklet is that to release an efficient argument you must write the arguments of others into your textual content. the best way to do that is by way of not just summarizing what “they say,” as steered in bankruptcy 2, yet via quoting their designated phrases. Quoting a person else’s phrases supplies a big volume of credibility on your precis and is helping make sure that it's reasonable and exact. In a feeling, then, quotations functionality as one of those proof, asserting to readers: “Look, I’m not only making this up. She makes this declare and the following it truly is in her specific phrases. ” but many writers make a bunch of blunders by way of quoting, no longer the least of that is the failure to cite sufficient within the first position, if in any respect. a few writers quote too little—perhaps simply because they don’t are looking to trouble going again to the unique textual content and looking out up the author’s particular phrases, or simply because they believe they could reconstruct the author’s rules from reminiscence. on the contrary severe are writers who so overquote that they prove with texts which are brief on observation in their own—maybe simply because they lack self belief of their skill to touch upon the quotations, or simply because they don’t totally comprehend them and for that reason have hassle explaining what they suggest. however the major challenge with citation arises whilst writers suppose that quotations communicate for themselves. as the that means of a citation is apparent to them, many writers think that this which means can also be visible to their readers, while frequently it isn't. Writers who make this error imagine that their task is finished while they’ve selected a citation and inserted it into their textual content. They draft an essay, slap in a number of quotations, and whammo, they’re performed. Such writers miss out on that quoting potential greater than easily enclosing what “they say” in citation marks. In a manner, quotations are orphans: phrases which have been taken from their unique contexts and that must be built-in into their new textual atmosphere. This bankruptcy bargains key how you can produce this type of integration: (1) by way of deciding on quotations properly, with a watch to how good they aid a specific a part of your textual content, and (2) by way of surrounding each significant citation with a body explaining whose phrases they're, what the citation ability, and the way the citation pertains to your textual content. the purpose we wish to emphasize is that quoting what “they say” should always be attached with what you are saying. QUOTE suitable PASSAGES ahead of you could opt for acceptable quotations, you must have a feeling of what you must do with them—that is, how they're going to help your textual content on the specific element the place you insert them.