They Say I Say

Surprisingly, for a small book it was very useful. This book taught me how to write a good formal paper. What I found useful was the templates that came with every chapter. Those templates helped gave me good ideas on how to enter quotes into my papers, put in a naysayers, and many more. For a book as small as it is I really did not expect it to contain so much helpful information. Each chapter was filled with ways to help people write an academic paper. It included a lot of helpful tips. I thought it was a good idea to have the class split up into little groups and pick a chapter to summarize. This way everyone can get the gist of the book and know which templates are the best to use. The only thing that I did not like about this book was the fact that the templates used first person and in an academic paper we are not encouraged to use first person. I was confused at first as to why first person was used, but there are ways to reword the templates to make it third person. Overall this book was helpful to me in writing my papers.