Writer’s Guide to Mindful Reading: Source Synthesis, pg. 28 and Chapter 5.
Writing a Summary
Using Sources
MLA IntegratingSources PPT
Class, this is an important assignment. Please read all the instructions carefully. This is not a discussion. Use the Submit button on the upper right.
Outcome #1: Be able to utilize tested research questions and search terms to locate scholarly articles.
Outcome #2: Be able to write concise and accurate summaries, integrate source information smoothly into original prose and cite sources correctly using correct MLA style.
Instructions:
Write a brief summary of only the sections in each of the two sources that respond to your questions. This will be a page or less overall. (Please do not summarize the entire article.) These summaries should be written formally, as if they were part of your paper.
Explain how this passage addresses your question.
Each source/summary should provide very different possible answers to your question(s).
Both of your summaries must include a quotation or paraphrase. Cite your sources correctly, using MLA style, and integrate any direct quotes or paraphrasing smoothly into your summary, citing these as well.
Examples of the correct use of source material are in the Powerpoint tutorial under Week Six.
Important Notes:
You will need to have refined your research questions several times by this point. They should be specific, complex (multiple parts) and challenging.
Please include your research questions at the top of the page.