Review Of The Book 'They Say, I Say'

The book, Honor and the American Dream: Culture and Identity in a Chicano Community, and the film, Salt of the Earth, both relay to their audience, the pursuit of happiness within the Chicano community in which they live. These works aim to show how Mexican-American immigrants fight to keep both their honor and value systems alive in the United States of America, a country which is foreign to their traditions. The Mexican-Americans encountered in these works fight for their culture of honor in order to define themselves in their new homeland, a homeland which honors the American dream of successful capitalism.

This chapter of the textbook by E. Shelley Reid’s Ten Ways To Think About Writing: Metaphoric Musings for College Writing addresses writing students. Reid uses expository and descriptive types of writing in her text. She describes and explains about the ten different important things when it comes to writing. One example in her chapter is where she explains how to write by the rules, describes the steps on how to be a successful writer and why some people struggle with writing essays or paragraphs sometimes. The writer quoted, “Write about what you know about so that you can show not just tell in order to adapt to your audience’s needs and accomplish your goals. Unless you do a good job showing what you mean, your audience will not understand your message.” (4) She also stated in one of her steps that sometimes the audience or readers of an essay or writing cannot exactly understand what the writer is trying to tell them. She tells her audience to

In the Introduction to They Say, I Say: The Moves that Matter in Academic Writing, Gerald Graff, Russel Durst and Cathy Birkenstein provide templates designed to format different ideas contradicting sides while building a structure in a clear and organized way. Specifically, Graff and Birkenstein argue that the types of writing templates they offer a way to engage in critical thinking and analyze the supporting ideas you formulate in a reasonable way, yet, also given the opportunity to explain why or for what cause you're disputing your point and explaining how you disagree or agree with other points made if there are any. As the authors themselves put it, "academic writing is argumentative writing... You need to enter a conversation, using what others say as a launching pad or sounding board for your own views" (page 3).

In The Things They Carried, Tim O 'Brien uses a variety of stories to explain the life experiences that he and many of his fellow soldiers endured during a single year in Vietnam. He tells these stories in a way that we can connect to these experiences. We never spent time in Vietnam, but O 'Brien wants us to feel like we were there. O 'Brien uses what he calls "story-truth" to write these stories. The outcome or the people may be different but the feeling is real; that 's the truth in the story, the feeling. He wants us to feel what he felt, see what he saw. He doesn 't just tell us what was happening exactly; he tells a fictional story that conveys the same emotion. He plays with the truth, that 's the reason why this book is a work of

Chapter 5 of They Say I Say is a very interesting chapter because it talks about improving your writing. In the chapter, they talk about learning how to state your own opinion without sounding biased. I believe that one great example of this is when the author exclaims, “I have a problem with what liberals call cultural differences.” This type of writing is important because you can express your own views and opinions without sounding biased. This type of writing only works if you can integrate parts of their argument into your own. Another method discussed in this text was using references to things you said prior to that. One good example of this could be when it states that,“ We would argue that voice markers we identified earlier, are extremely

No Talking by Andrew Clements tells a story about a boy who starts a competition to see whether the boys are quieter or the girls. Every time someone talks with more than three words in a row, the other gender gets a point. Whoever’s team has the most points at the end of the competition wins. You never know whether someone will make a mistake or not. Read the book to find out what will happen to the competition. The rules are, “Okay heres the deal a whole day of NO TALKING IN SCHOOL. Not in class, not in the halls, not on the playground nowhere. No talking at all. And it’s a contest- BOYS AGAINST GIRLS. Whichever side talks less, wins” If you like books about competitions you should read No Talking by Andrew Clements

In “Breaking the Five-Paragraph-Theme Barrier” professor Thomas Nunnally describes his experience teaching the popular writing tool. The five-paragraph theme requires an introductory paragraph, three middle paragraphs that each have their own ideas, and a concluding paragraph. Nunnally believes that this writing model should only be used as a writing tool and not the backbone to all essays (Nunnally). I agree with Nunnally’s stance, but also think that by the age of sixteen, students should no longer be given the opportunity to rely on the model for writing opportunities. **

Growing up, writing came as easy to me as riding a bike. It was never anything I needed help on, aside from the occasional proof read - it was something that just came natural. The worst part is, I knew it. Whatever the topic was, I was able to write with ease. Unfortunately, I was not learning more advanced writing techniques and etiquette, just expanding my vocabulary. So when I was assigned to write an argument paper with quotes, cites, and sources, I thought I had it all figured out.

In the article “Helping Students Use Textual Sources Persuasively,” Kantz explained to students as they write, how to use current texts to build a new original one. She argues that many undergraduate students cannot perform this idea correctly, because as they write they never had the opportunity to get taught to examine and synthesize a piece of writing correctly. Students need to understand how to view facts as claims, or view writing as a serial of creative ideas and drafts that drive to a final distinctive piece of work. In this article Kantz described how students think as they are writing, she used personal experiences, introduces “rhetorical situation,” and used

I agree. In my view, the types of templates that the authors recommend are a great guide for all writers alike. For instance, accomplished writers are able to show that they respectfully disagree with the other party and argue their point of view, thus helping the reader think critically about their own believes. Less experienced writers are able to use the templates as a guide to learn structuring their writing. In addition, it gives the writer a frame to work with, making the writing process much simpler. Some might object, of course, on the ground that it might be considered plagiarism. Yet I would

In this entry for chapter three of, Writing about Writing by Wardle and Downs, the main goal is to introduce ideas of using rhetoric as a research device. Overall, rhetoric is a very broad topic, so to make the topic easier for people to digest, it has been broken down into many different sub terms and criteria’s. One of the first ideas brought up concerning rhetoric is rhetorical theory. Rhetorical Theory help’s people understand different aspects of writing, “how writers, texts, readers, and contexts interacts; how writers come up with what to say; how texts construct knowledge; and how people make up their minds, and change them.” (318) These four concepts are essentially the building blocks of creating “accurate conceptions of writing as

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In chapter 4 of They Say I Say, Graff, Birkenstein, Durst focus on the strategies in offering the writers’ response to the other’s idea. Generally, the three most common attitudes of response are agreement, disagreement and combination of the former two attitudes. Since a disagreement to someone’s idea means a new argument in the essay, authors claim that the writer who shows a disagreement to someone’s idea should continue providing a reason or explanation. Equally, writer who shows a combination attitude to someone’s idea should continue stating the part that he/she disagree and the reasons of this attitude. Besides the strategies, authors also provide the templates in clearly responding the “they say”.

the book keep holding on follows Noelle who lives a horrible life and had faced numerous hardships. This book tells a lot about bullying and first love. Noelle felt humiliated and thought that she didn't fit in with everyone else. Being a daughter of a single mother was very difficult for Noelle as she couldn't afford most things other could and had a mother that didn't treat her well. She was very much insecure about herself and had a mindset that no one would find her interesting. This book portrays how bullying is a major issue in our society and the impact of it to us. The author represents the struggles of being bullied especially as a teenager and the misunderstandings in relationships

The book “Eat Pray Love” is a memoir written by Elizabeth Gilbert. This book talks about the journey of this 32-year old writer who is in search for balance and tranquility in her life, especially in the emotional aspect. The division of the book is inspired by the meditation beads, Japa Mala from India. Hence, the book has 108 chapters further divided into three books. The division of these books further signifies balance since it is perceived that the number of beads is a perfect three-digit multiple of three. Moreover, these three sub-books exhibits Gilbert’s journey to Italy, India and Indonesia to seek the true meaning of pleasure, devotion and balance in her life. The ‘tales’ of Gilbert’s journey will be further discussed