They Say I Say

Chapters 1-3

In this section of the book, the author begins to explore how to set up an argument and make it convincing. One way of doing that the author explains is to focus on what "they say." "They" are the people who you are responding to when you make a point about a specific topic, when you want to prove something. The ways of doing this that the author covers in the first few chapters in through the use of summarizing, knowing your opposition, and quoting.