Chapter 15

Chapter 15 - using sources effectively
How to use source information and primary techniques for integrating source information
How to use sources to accomplish purpose
   -  as a quotation, paraphrase, or summary
   -  as numerical information
   -  as illustrations such as images, audio, video or animals
- Introduce an idea or argument
- Contrast ideas or arguments
- Provide evidence for your argument
     - Unsupported assertion - no evidence provided
     - Supported assertion - Evidence provided in first sentence
 - Align your argument with an authority
- Define a concept, illustrate a process, or clarify a statement
- Set a mood
- Provide an example
- Amplify or qualify a point
How can I integrate sources into my draft?
- Identify sources
    - Use attributions and in-text citations (lists common attributions pg. 252)
    - Provide a context
- Quote strategically
    - Use partial, complete and block quotations
    - Modify quotation as appropriate (pg. 104-105)
    - Punctuate quotations correctly (pg. 254-255)
- Paraphrase information, ideas, and arguments
- Summarize
    - Entire source
    - Specific ideas and information from a source
    - A group of sources
- Present numerical data
- Use images, audio, videos and animations
How should I document my sources?
- Choose a documentation system (MLA, APA, Chicago, CSE)
- Provide in-text references and publication information
- check for unattributed sources in document
- distinguish between your ideas and your source's ideas

This chapter will aid me in integrating my sources into my paper. I put page numbers by specific information I think will really be useful for me, so that I can refer back to the text as I am writing. This chapter goes into depth about how to use sources/quotations ect. which will help ensure I do not use them improperly and accidentally plagiarize something. It also shows me how to better incorporate my sources into my argument so that my writing contains supported assertions and my work is not discredited due to lack of evidence, or lack of properly used evidence.