They Say/I Say: The Data Suggest By Christopher Gillen

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In Christopher Gillen’s chapter “The Data Suggest” in “They Say/I Say: The moves that matter in Academic Writing”, Gillen (2010) addresses to the readers his rendition of the correct way to present scientific writing. He first explains that in order to convincingly portray the author’s point about the scientific issue that they either agree with, disagree with is to begin with the data. He states , “Data are the fundamental currency of scientific argument” (Gillen, 2010, pg. 204). Meaning, in order to appear knowledgeable and to open an argument at all, the data, including their numbers, methods and conclusion, from previously existing theories and from the author’s own experiment is crucial to present in the writing. Gillen claims that by

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