Integrating Sources

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.

Chapter contents:

Quick Help: Certainty in argument

Quick Help: Restatement to build ethos

Quick Help: Signal verbs

Integrating quotations

Integrating paraphrases and summaries

Working with visuals and media

Synthesizing sources

Checking for excessive use of source material