Chapter 13: Integrating Sources into Your Writing
CHAPTER 13Integrating Sources into Your Writing
CONNECT: How should you introduce a source in your own writing? 13a and 32c (MLA), 33c (APA), 34c (Chicago), or 35b (CSE)
CREATE: Make a brief video, or write a paragraph introducing the source to your readers as if it were a teacher or an acquaintance.
REFLECT: Respond to Caroline Warner's synthesis project.
THE PROCESS OF ABSORBING your sources and then integrating them gracefully into your own writing is one of the challenges but also the pleasures of successful research. As you work with sources and make plans to use them in your own writing, they become yours. When you integrate sources appropriately into your work, they don’t take over your writing or drown out your voice. Instead, they work in support of your own good ideas.