PB2B

They Say I Say has many different moves that are identified by the author Graff, Birkenstein, and Durst. I for the most I never really thought about many of the mentioned moves as moves, and upon realizing this and looking back the articles read throughout this class, I realized that these moves are used widely by writers.

In Navigating Genres, Dirk utilizes the move “Explaining Quotations.” Before using this move, Dirk introduces a quote regarding his topics about genres; this is so that the reader can understand what he will be paraphrasing and explaining in the paragraph to come. In the continuing paragraph, Dirk goes on to talk about his interpretation of the quote and explains how the writer of the quote meant that genres affect the choices we make when writing.

In the same article, Dirk uses the move “Introducing Quotations”. Dirk uses many quotes from various people. Most of the time he uses a quote he tends to introduce the author beforehand or at least mention them after he had used the quote. This is both used to give credibility and help his argument.

Now in Teaching Two Kinds of Thinking by Teaching Writing, by Elbow, the move “Disagreeing with Reasons” is used to make his point more appealing. Elbow begins the paragraph with a very popular opinion about how intuitive thinking can be built by taking a break from what one is writing and letting it sit in the back of your mind, helping you build up ideas for the next time you come back to it. “But” is the first word in his next sentence which indicates the beginning of disagreement to the aforementioned sentence.

The move “Establishing why Your Claims Matters” is used by Carroll near the very end of her article in the last two paragraphs. Carroll uses this move in a straight forward fashion, ending the first on page 57 with, “Why do you need to know how to do more formal analysis? How does this matter outside a college classroom?” In the next paragraph Carroll addresses this question and gives examples of how we use rhetorical analysis in our daily lives and its importance.

At the end of his article, Murder! (Rhetorically Speaking), Boyd uses the “Adding Metacommetary” move to remind the reader of something he mentioned at the beginning of his article.  Boyd uses this move to reveal how like he stated, we already had rhetorical skills and learned them through sources we had no idea were affecting our way of analyzing different materials.

The moves mentioned They Say I Say are the only ones that exist; there are many moves that aren’t mentioned and can only be observed in individual pieces.

The “Want Some Questions?” is move used by Bunn in How to Read Like a Writer. This move used throughout the entirety of his article and is called this because Bunn is constantly giving us questions to use when reading in his article. Bunn definitely chose to use this move because his article is about learning how to ask question regarding why, what, and how and author did something in his writing. By giving us these question in his article, Bunn is introducing us questions we could use initially when reading so that we at least have something to work off when beginning our journey to “Read like Writers” (RLW). This move is well received because it can be hard to come up with questions to analyze a text without having the right things to look for, and these question serve as a starting guide.

In Murder! (Rhetorically Speaking), Boyd uses the “Many Steps Activity.” This move is used to represent the majority of his article and all the various task he wants us to do, such as writing about the death of person in a three different perspectives. Boyd may have chosen to perform this move because he might have had the mentality that people learn better through practice than just by reading. This move was executed is a beautiful way because by making the reader think about a situation from three different views, it demonstrated how depending on the scenario the same topic can be addressed differently. This ultimately could relate to his main idea that rhetoric is what makes all writing different because it all depends on the situation and who, where, and what the writer is trying to address.

Most of the time the finally paragraph of an article will address its main point ad then end, but in Navigating Genres, Dirk ends his article with a move I’d like to call, “The Big •.” At the end of his article, Dirk has four bullet points that give the main points of his article in a few easy to read concise sentences. Dirk probably chose to pull this move because his article was very long and had a lot of information. With the combination of these two, it could be expected that the reader would not be able to retain all of the information he gave; he probably thought it best to give them, the reader, a quick run-through of his points at the end of his article so they could be fresh in their minds and because it’s always better to restate thing because it keeps them in someone’s mind longer. The use of this move was one I liked because it can really help one to remember the points made by Dirk, especially when one must write about his article when having not reviewed it in quite some-time.

A pretty well known move which I call the “People Like You” is also used by Bunn in his article How to Read Like a Writer. This move—as one might expect—is the usage quotes by people who have used a certain product, or in this case, technique that someone is presenting. In this case, Bunn is proposing that we, students, should RLW because not only will it help us read pieces in a more effective way, but it will also help us improve our writing because we will be learning how to use certain moves. Bunn used this move because people find it easier to relate to people who have been in a similar situations or have experience something unknown to the person—making the reader feel like they should actually give this technique of RLW a try. Bunn’s move is effective because when I first read this article, about 8 months ago, I was really interesting in the effectiveness of his technique and decided to give it a try—I like it and since then have been using it ever so often.

One last noticeable move used is the “Passionate Finally” used by Elbow in Teaching Two kind of Thinking by Teaching Two Kind of Writing. This move is a power move that is shaped mainly by the pathos of the author. Elbow might have used this move to express to the reader just how important his point is that the two kinds of thinking—first and second order—be used by everyone and seen as a way to improve our writing rather than it being seen as a negative and positive respectively. Although the move does little to give factual support to his claim, do think that this move is effective in giving the reader a sense of the importance of the acceptance of both thinking style to the author; this might possibly actually have a strong effect on the readers who enjoy it when writers express themselves in their writing.