TSIS 74-97

Once again reading from chapters six and seven in They Say, I Say by Graff and Birkenstein was helpful for me. Chapter six talked most about incorporating a naysayer in one's text. This pretty much means to be open minded and not just present one side of the argument. It makes the author seem more credible when he/she also talks about the other side of the argument. It helps prove more of a point. If the author only talks about his topic it seems like more of an informative paper than a research paper. One of the templates the book suggests for introducing an objection is ' Yet some readers may challenge my view that................. After all, many believe that................. Indeed, my own argument that .................. seems to ignore .............. and .....................'

Chapter seven basically explained saying why it matters. The chapter also talked about answering the two questions "who cares?" and "so what?" Mostly the questions are supposed to answer the group or person that cares about the author's topic. "So what?" is supposed to answer the importance of the topic that the author is presenting. One of the templates the book suggests for indicating who cares is: 'This interpretation challenges the work of those critics who have long assumed that...............' A useful template for indicating why what the author is saying matters is: 'Although X may seem trivial, it is in fact crucial in terms of today's concern over..........