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Demystifying the Academic Game
November 21, 2006
Gerald Graff writer
Cathy Birkenstein-Graff writer

Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein-Graff focus on the obscurity that still envelops popular understandings of how teachers and students enter the academic conversation. Their book, They Say, I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing, argues that educational institutions need to do more to close the gap between the culture of public discourse and that of students and other citizens.

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