They Say, I Say- ch 8-10

              These chapters in They Say, I Say focuses on the way in which many students write. The first thing mentioned about is sentence structure. They see many students create sentence fragments and how they are unable to connect from sentence to sentence. To counteract this, they say to use different transition words and to go back to your main argument. You referring to the argument, they don't want to writer to make it seem overplayed, but to use it in a way in which the reader will remember the topic and what the paper is about. They next chapter talks about the mix between academic and colloquial writing. Depending on the writing piece, there is typically a desired mix between the two. You do not want to lose your own voice, even if it is an academic type writing piece. The final chapter addresses the topic of metacommentary. The job of metacommentary is to explain to the reader what you actually mean when you say one thing. this is useful in getting across ones point and allow the reader to fully understand what you are trying to say in your writing.