Review of Synthesizing Sources: Last week we discussed the stages of a literature review. Let's revisit the sample outline [handout given in class]. Here is a draft of the outline in essay format. Can you identify the stages? What's missing? Can you identify the organizational strategy for synthesizing sources? Using the outline in the handout, begin to reverse-engineer this draft. Label the parts, break up the paragraphs, and list the parts that are missing. SAVE IT! We'll continue this activity next class.
Integrating source text: Paraphrasing, summarizing, quoting, and other ways of integrating sources help you to support your ideas instead of you supporting that of the source text. Most importantly, proper integration of sources will give you the tools that you need to AVOID plagiarism.
The next step is deciding which integration strategy to use. This chart summarizes the methods of incorporating information.
Writing paraphrases: A paraphrase uses--and cites--the ideas or information provided by another author in your paper, but not with his/her exact words. First, let's look at this PowerPoint which provides a quick review and a practice exercise. Next class we'll do a practice workshop.
Contract Conferences: Please be sure to attend your contract conference this week. Several of you have not yet put your first paper and contract 2 into your dropbox. Please do so 3 days BEFORE your conference time or I will not have ample time to provide feedback. Please also include the word "FINAL1" in the file name of the essay I'm meant to grade for contract 1.
Thursday is a contract conference day, so we will not meet in class.
