Before you integrate sources and show readers how they relate to one another, consider how each one might contribute to your own argument. As one student writer became more informed about Internet surveillance in the workplace, she asked herself these questions:
What do I think about monitoring employees online?
Which sources might extend or illustrate the points I want to make?
Which sources voice opposing points of view that I need to address?
With these questions in mind, the student read and annotated sources, including arguments both for and against workplace surveillance.
Related topics:
Placing sources in conversation
Annotating sources
Sample synthesis