Covering every step of research, writing, and documentation, Writing from Sources provides a complete guide to source-based writing. The book builds from fundamental skills -- such as annotating a passage -- to more demanding ones such as integrating sources smoothly into an original argument. Examples, exercises, and guidance throughout help students gain confidence with essential concepts, while numerous readings drawn from a variety of sources provide models and practice in every skill.
Writing from Sources
Guides students through the process of using source materials in a research paper.
The second edition of Sourcework, designed to help students make use of outside sources, has been updated and enhanced to better guide writers through the challenges of their first academic research papers.
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The use of the word “smelly” in this passage is illuminated by Jeffrey Myers's observation that Orwell “uses odor as a kind of ethical touchstone” (62). Orwell concludes his essay on Gandhi, Myers notes, by remarking “how clean a smell ...
Writing from Sources 7e + Exercise Central to Go
Learn new ways to help middle and high school students develop the habits necessary to read closely, take good notes, then analyse what they have read from multiple sources and synthesise information into effective discussion and, ...
Using sources to support and enhance writing should be an integral part of each step in the writing process. ... Furthermore, writers use sources as mentor texts to help them plan the structure of their writing, organize the information ...
To teach students a reliable process for working with sources, the book builds systematically from simpler skills such as finding a topic and looking for sources to more demanding ones such as choosing appropriate sources and integrating ...