Preface -- Preface to "They Say/I Say" -- Introduction: Entering the conversation -- Part 1: "They Say": -- 1: "They say": Starting with what others are saying -- 2: "Her point is": Art of summarizing -- 3: "As he himself puts it": The art of quoting -- Part 2: "I Say" -- 4: "Yes / no / okay, but": Three ways to respond -- 5: "And yet": Distinguishing what you say from what they say -- 6: "Skeptics may object": Planting a naysayer in your text -- 7: "So what? Who cares?": Saying why it matters -- Part 3: Tying It All Together: -- 8: "As a result": Connecting the parts -- 9: "Ain't so/Is not": Academic writing doesn't always mean setting aside your own voice -- 10: "But don't get me wrong": The art of metacommentary -- Part 4: Entering the Conversation: -- 11: "I take your point": Entering class discussions -- 12: "What's motivating this writer?": Reading for the conversation -- 13: "Analyze this": Writing in the social sciences / Erin Ackerman -- Readings: -- 14: Is higher education worth the price? -- Are colleges worth the price of admission? / Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus -- The new liberal arts / Sanford J. Ungar -- Kenyon commencement speech / David Foster Wallace -- Two years are better than four / Liz Addison -- Why do you think they're called for-profit colleges? / Kevin Carey -- Are too many people going to college? / Charles Murray -- Blue-collar brilliance / Mike Rose -- A lifetime of student debt? Not likely / Robin Wilson -- 15: Is pop culture actually good for you? -- Watching TV makes you smarter / Steven Johnson -- Thinking outside the idiot box / Dana Stevens -- Family Guy and Freud / Antonia Peacocke -- Small change: why the revolution will not be tweeted / Malcolm Gladwell -- Reforming Egypt in 140 characters? / Dennis Baron -- 2b or not 2b? / David Crystal -- The I.M.s of Romeo and Juliet / Roz Chast -- Extra lives: Why video games matter / Tom Bissell -- The good, the bad, and the Daily show / Jason Zinser -- Hidden intellectualism / Gerald Graff -- 16: Is fast food the new tobacco? -- Don't blame the eater / David Zincenko -- What you eat is your business / Radley Balko -- Junking junk food / Judith Warner -- Kentucky town of Manchester illustrates national obesity crisis / Wil Haygood -- Remarks to the NAACP / Michelle Obama -- Escape from the western diet / Michael Pollan -- Food as thought: Resisting the moralization of eating / Mary Maxfield -- Fat is a feminist issue / Susie Orbach -- Having it his way: the construction of masculinity in fast-food TV advertising / Carrie Packwood Freeman and Debra Merskin -- 17: Why does it matter who wins the big game? -- Champion of the world / Maya Angelou -- Why sports matter / Wilfrid Sheed -- Women who hit very hard and how they've changed tennis / Michael Kimmelman -- In defense of cheering / Jennie Yabroff -- How I learned to love football / Felisa Rogers -- Move over boys, make room in the crease / Sara Maratta -- We, the public, place the best athletes on pedestals / William Moller -- Cheating and CHEATING / Joe Posnanski -- 18: What's up with the American dream? -- Hiding from reality / Bob Herbert -- Is the American dream over? / Cal Thomas -- The American dream: dead, alive, or on hold? / Brandon King -- Income inequality: too big to ignore / Robert H. Frank -- Confronting inequality / Paul Krugman -- Up against Wal-Mart / Karen Olsson -- Progressive Wal-Mart. Really / Sebastian Mallaby -- Predatory lending and the devouring of the American dream / Constance M. Ruzich and A. J. Grant -- A more perfect union / Barack Obama -- Permissions, acknowledgments -- Acknowledgments -- Index of templates -- Index of authors and titles

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