Required length: 800 words. (Yes, 795 is fine. No, 735 is not.)
In They Say / I Say, Birkenstein and Graff give you templates for arguments. They’re helpful learning tools, but let’s see if we can identify these parts of an argument in a real writing situation.
For this paper, you will choose a chapter in Malcolm Gladwell’s David and Goliath — any chapter, including the introduction, will work — and explain how Gladwell uses the They Say / I Say format to forward his argument. You are not creating your own argument here, nor are you summarizing, agreeing, or disagreeing with Gladwell’s argument.