Using sources to support claims

As you draft your argument, make sure to support your claims with specific evidence: facts, examples, and other evidence from your research.

Anna Orlov, for example, uses an anecdote from one of her sources to support her claim that limiting computer access causes resentment among a company’s staff.

Monitoring online activities can have the unintended effect of making employees resentful. . . . Kesan warns that “prohibiting personal use can seem extremely arbitrary and can seriously harm morale. . . . Imagine a concerned parent who is prohibited from checking on a sick child by a draconian company policy” (315-16). As this analysis indicates, employees can become disgruntled when Internet usage policies are enforced to their full extent.