A Review: They Say / I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing

By John Edlund When you assign research papers and other academic writing that uses sources, do you get papers in which it is hard to tell who is saying what? Does the literature review look like a list or a note card dump? Is it hard to tell what the student thinks? Do some students avoid using sources at all? Are there long passages that seem to be pasted in from somewhere else? Students who turn in papers like these are having difficulty joining the academic conversation. Is it because they can’t do the necessary critical thinking? Or is it […]