Considering how sources relate to your argument (MLA)

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Before you integrate sources and show readers how they relate to one another, consider how each one might contribute to your own argument.

As student writer Sophie Harba became more informed about her research topic, she asked herself these questions:

She annotated a passage from one of her sources—a nonprofit group’s assertion that people’s choices about food are skewed by marketing messages.

STUDENT’S NOTES ON A SOURCE

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Sample synthesis (MLA)

Related topics:

Placing sources in conversation

Annotating a written text

Annotating an image or a multimodal text