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This paper discusses and reviews Gerald Graff and Kathy Birkenstein's book "They Say/I Say: The Moves that Matter in Academic Writing." The book itself is described as providing templates designed to help people enter into a conversation of ideas with others. Specifically, Graff and Birkenstein argue that the types of writing templates they offer help individuals learn how to summarize the ideas of others so that one's own arguments can be advanced.

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"In the introduction to 'They Say/I Say: The Moves that Matter in Academic Writing', Gerald Graff and Kathy Birkenstein provide templates designed to help people enter into a conversation of ideas with others. Specifically, Graff and Birkenstein argue that the types of writing templates they offer help individuals learn how to summarize the ideas of others so that one's own argument can be advanced. As the authors themselves put it: '(their templates) help students focus on the rhetorical patterns that are key to academic success but often pass under the classroom radar" (Graff &..."

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