Blog 1

In the introduction to "They Say/I Say": The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing, the authors, Gerald Graff and Cathy Berkinstein, provide templates to help students better themselves in their writing through active voice and giving help to have well thought out written arguments. During the course of the introduction both authors agree templates are a suitable way to let creativity flow through a writer by first having guidelines to follow and then expand on. Some might argue templates hinder the creative flow and make them write as Graff and Berkinstein put it being turned into "writing robots".
I agree with the views that of the authors. The templates while may look like boring guidelines only students would use for papers, many newspapers use these cookie cutters to help bring interesting facts to their articles. While some might disagree with me saying people do not use the templates word for word they would be right, but the formula remains the same though looking like an original work. Overall, I believe the templates are a perfect tool that everyone should use inside and outside classrooms to better themselves in their writing.