“They Say / I Say”: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing (Third Edition), by Gerald Graff, is a best-selling guide that has empowered over 1,500 academic institutions. This essential resource demystifies the art of academic writing by pinpointing the crucial rhetorical strategies that elevate an argument. It expertly guides students to situate their own ideas within the ongoing scholarly conversation, offering practical templates to facilitate this process. Embracing the universality of these core writing principles across disciplines, this edition features dedicated chapters on crafting arguments in the sciences and social sciences, along with a valuable new section on writing about literature. Published by W. W. Norton & Company on February 4, 2014, this Third Edition carries the ISBN-10: 393935841 and ISBN-13: 978-0393935844.