English 190/100 - Reading Response - They Say I Say Excerpt 1 (Reading Response Assignment)
Lecturer: Mr. Felluss
Directions:
Respond to the excerpt below from Graff and Berkenstein’s text They Say I Say; That is, Quote Mine for five (5) quotes from the sources your have gathered in your research. List the citation below the quote in MLA format.
Excerpt:
“Experienced writing instructors have long recognized that writing well means entering into conversation with others. Academic writing in particular calls upon writers not simply to express their own ideas, but to do so as a response to what others have said” (Graff and Birkenstein xvi).
Graff, Gerald and Cathy Birkenstein. They Say I Say. Third, 2013.
Example:
“The primary aim of organizations as systems is to ensure their own survival” (Flood and Carson 80)
Flood, Robert L., and Ewart R. Carson. Dealing with Complexity : An Introduction to the Theory and Application of Systems Science, Springer, 1993..
IMPORTANT: No personal narratives. No use of the pronoun “I.” No use of traumatic material. Use MLA header.
Grading: See attached Grading Rubric for grading criteria for this Reading Response and correlated point scale.