Gerald Graff, Emeritus Professor of English and Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago and 2008 President of the Modern Language Association of America, has had a major impact on teachers through such books as Professing Literature: An Institutional History, Beyond the Culture Wars: How Teaching the Conflicts Can Revitalize American Education, and Clueless in Academe: How Schooling Obscures the Life of the Mind.

NEW CHAPTER ON RESEARCH HELPS STUDENTS FIND AND EVALUATE SOURCES

"But As Several Sources Suggest": Research as Conversation introduces students to the habits and rhetorical moves of researched writing and helps them turn inquiry into argument. With new and diverse examples from academic writing, the chapter covers key strategies such as how to craft a research question that can be argued, how to search for sources strategically and how to evaluate them. This chapter includes an annotated student model and is supported by new robust online resources.

NEW EXERCISES HELP STUDENTS APPLY THE BOOK'S ADVICE

New exercises, now three for every chapter, not only give students quick ways to apply the book's advice but also give instructors new ways to extend the book's content for in-class work or as homework for students who need more support. Many exercises include a short passage for reading and writing practice. Exercises also prompt students to join conversations on [...], making it easier for instructors to incorporate our interactive online resources.

EXPANDED SUPPORT FOR READING

Most students need help reading for the conversation before they can develop their own ideas, so this edition gives students the opportunity to build successful reading strategies through expanded in-text and online activities. Assignable, interactive online tutorials help students recognise and understand the rhetorical moves in academic conversations, a NEW InQuizitive activity teaches students how to read online sources like a fact-checker and NEW exercises in Chapter 14, Reading for the Conversation, prompt students to read actively.

A SUBSTANTIALLY REVISED CHAPTER ON REVISION

One of the most important and challenging steps in the writing process is revision. Comprehensively expanded and revised, this chapter now gives students strategies to feel confident moving beyond surface-level edits to discover ways to strengthen their arguments and, in the process, demystify feedback from their instructors or peers.

HELP FOR WRITING ACROSS DISCIPLINES-NOW WITH NEW STUDENT WRITING

Complementing the book's three chapters on writing in the disciplines are three NEW student essays, two of which are from students who used "They Say / I Say" and whose essays were nominated for The Norton Writer's Prize. These essays, all of which are documented, not only model the rhetorical moves across researched writing, but offer lively examples of writing that engages with other people's views.