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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.

Books by Gerald Graff

  1. Book Cover"They Say / I Say": The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing

    Second Edition

    The book that demystifies academic writing, teaching students to frame their arguments in the larger context of what else has been said about their topic–and providing templates to help them make the key rhetorical moves.More

  2. Book Cover"They Say / I Say": The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing

    Third Edition

    The best-selling book on academic writing—in use at more than 1,500 schools.More

  3. Book Cover"They Say / I Say": The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing with Readings


    "They Say / I Say" shows that writing well means mastering some key rhetorical moves, the most important of which involves summarizing what others have said ("they say") to set up one’s own argument ("I say").More

  4. Book Cover"They Say / I Say": The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing with Readings

    Second Edition

    The best-selling text/reader on academic writing.More

  5. Book CoverBeyond the Culture Wars: How Teaching the Conflicts Can Revitalize American Education


    "Graff offers a highly readable and down-to-earth perspective on some of the most ballyhooed issues in higher education today. . . . By encouraging us to argue together, he may yet help us to reason together."—Henry Louis Gates, Jr.More