Moves That Matter: Examples of Strong Writing from MGT 360 Wayne Smith, Ph.D. Department of Management CSU Northridge ws@csun.edu

Superior, Contemporary Writing Employ higher-order writing strategies Always elevate your writing (throughout this class and beyond) All of the following examples are from my outstanding students Moves That Matter Introducing What “They Say”, Introducing “Standard Views”, Making What “They Say” Something You Say, Introducing Something Implied or Assumed, Introducing An Ongoing Debate, Capturing Authorial Action, Introducing Quotations, Explaining Quotations, Disagreeing—With Reasons, Agreeing—With A Difference, Agreeing and Disagreeing Simultaneously, Signaling Who is Saying What, Embedding Voice Markers, Entertaining Objections, Naming Your Naysayers, Introducing Objections, Informally, Making Concessions While Still Standing Your Ground, Indicating Who Cares, Establishing Why Your Claims Matter, Adding Meta-Commentary, Starting With What Others Say About A Literary Work, Responding to Other Interpretations Of A Literary Work, Showing Evidence When Writing About a Literary Work, Explain What the Data Mean, Explaining An Experimental Result, Introducing Gaps in the Existing Research

Exemplars – Moves That Matter Introducing What “They Say” “(tbd)”

References The categories for the Moves That Matter section of this presentation were excerpted and adapted from the following book: Graff, G., and Birkenstein, C. (2014), They Say / I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing (3rd ed.), W. W. Norton, New York.