Paul G Cook Author

Gerald Graff, Emeritus Professor of English and Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago and 2008 President of the Modern Language Association of America, has had a major impact on teachers through such books as Professing Literature: An Institutional History, Beyond the Culture Wars: How Teaching the Conflicts Can Revitalize American Education, and Clueless in Academe: How Schooling Obscures the Life of the Mind. Cathy Birkenstein is a lecturer in English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has published essays on writing in College English, and, with Gerald Graff in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Academe, and College Composition and Communication. Paul G. Cook, who joins Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein as coauthor of this edition of “They Say, I Say,” is professor of English at University of South Carolina Beaufort, where he teaches first-year writing, rhetoric, professional writing, and digital literacy. His research, focused on rhetoric and composition, misinformation, postdigital literacy, and writing pedagogy, has appeared in Pedagogy, Across the Disciplines, The WAC Journal, and English Teaching: Practice and Critique, among other venues. He is the author of Misinformation Studies and Higher Education in the Postdigital Era: Beyond Fake News, former director of writing at IU Kokomo, and a frequent speaker on writing, misinformation, AI literacy, and digital pedagogy.