Instructor's Notes
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After completing one of the writing assignments presented in this chapter or supplied by your instructor, turn back to the After Writing questions in Chapter 3 and respond to as many of them as you can. While addressing these questions, it might be helpful to revisit your response to the Learning by Doing activity Reflecting on Plagiarism, if you completed it.
Next, reflect in writing about how you might apply the insights that you drew from this assignment to another situation—in or outside of college—in which you have to support a position with sources. If no specific situations come to mind, imagine that
in a political science course, you decide to write a paper that argues against harsh punishments for low-level drug offenders. You plan to incorporate evidence from news articles, political science journals, and government sources of sentencing data.
in a work setting, you plan to argue for a raise based on the fact that your performance has exceeded expectations set for you the previous year, on your high customer-service ratings, on positive reviews from supervisors, and on other evidence.