Gerald Graff

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About Gerald Graff

GERALD GRAFF, a 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, most recently, Clueless in Academe: How Schooling Obscures the Life of the Mind.

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"They Say / I Say" (Fifth Edition) Aug 2, 2021

by Gerald Graff, Cathy Birkenstein

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The little book that demystifies academic writing, reading, and research.

Used and loved by millions of students for its lively and practical advice, this is the book that demystifies academic writing and shows how to engage with the views of others. Extensively revised in response to feedback from our community of adopters, this edition of “They Say / I Say” is an even more practical companion for students, featuring a new chapter on research, new exercises, expanded support for reading, and an expanded chapter on Revising. This purchase offers access to the digital ebook only.

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They Say / I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing with Readings Feb 11, 2022

by Gerald Graff, Cathy Birkenstein, Russel Durst

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The book that has taught millions of students to present their arguments as a response to what “they say” has been expanded to define as broadly as possible who’s included in “they.” Readings demonstrate the moves that matter in academic writing and represent a multitude of perspectives. The Fourth Edition includes an anthology of 40 readings―half of which are NEW―that will prompt students to listen, think, and write about five important issues, including NEW “How Can We Bridge the Differences That Divide Us?”

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Clueless in Academe: How Schooling Obscures the Life of the Mind Jul 11, 2004

by Gerald Graff

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An eminent scholar and educator looks at the academic world from a crucial perspective for teachers—the perspective of those who don’t get it

Gerald Graff argues that our schools and colleges make the intellectual life seem more opaque, narrowly specialized, and beyond normal learning capacities than it is or needs to be. Left clueless in the academic world, many students view the life of the mind as a secret society for which only an elite few qualify.

In a refreshing departure from standard diatribes against academia, Graff shows how academic unintelligibility is unwittingly reinforced not only by academic jargon and obscure writing, but by the disconnection of the curriculum and the failure to exploit the many connections between academia and popular culture. Finally, Graff offers a wealth of practical suggestions for making the culture of ideas and arguments more accessible to students, showing how students can enter the public debates that permeate their lives.

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"They Say / I Say" (Fifth High School Edition) Aug 1, 2021

by Gerald Graff, Cathy Birkenstein

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The little book that demystifies academic writing, reading, and research

Used and loved by millions of students for its lively and practical advice, this is the book that shows the key rhetorical moves in academic writing and explains how to engage with the views of others. With a new chapter on researching conversations, new exercises, expanded support for reading, and a substantially revised chapter on how to revise, this edition of “They Say / I Say” is an even more practical companion for students than ever before. This purchase offers access to the digital ebook only.

Professing Literature: An Institutional History, Twentieth Anniversary Edition Nov 15, 2008

by Gerald Graff

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Widely considered the standard history of the profession of literary studies, Professing Literature unearths the long-forgotten ideas and debates that created the literature department as we know it today. In a readable and often-amusing narrative, Gerald Graff shows that the heated conflicts of our recent culture wars echo—and often recycle—controversies over how literature should be taught that began more than a century ago.

Updated with a new preface by the author that addresses many of the provocative arguments raised by its initial publication, Professing Literature remains an essential history of literary pedagogy and a critical classic.

“Graff’s history. . . is a pathbreaking investigation showing how our institutions shape literary thought and proposing how they might be changed.”— The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism

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