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Week 6, Discussion 2 — Examining a Sample Student Multi-Source Essay/Literature Review

 

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Your response to this discussion is  due by this week Friday at 11:59 PM Eastern Standard Time (EST).

You are also asked to respond to at least one other student in the class on his or her response.

Your  response to your fellow student is due by this week Sunday at 11:59 PM Eastern Standard Time (EST).

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Throughout the course, we have been examining the work of a student who is assessing Language. You can access it in  Content under Resources to Review . It is named:

WA#3-Sample Language Multi-Source Essay Literature Review

As you read over the material, please note the improvements the student has made since the Annotated Bibliography and Six-Source essays.

Please answer the following questions:

1. In the introduction, what is the thesis statement for this paper?

2. Compare this draft to the Six-Source Essay you looked at in Week 4. Choose three improvements that the student made in the Multi-Source Essay and list them.

3. What are some suggestions about the relationship between animal communication and human language?

4. What limitations can you identify in this student draft? How would you improve it? 

5. As a result of having read this article, please write a few sentences about what you might have learned about synthesizing sources.

 

 Please note that you will not be able to see other students' responses to this discussion topic until you post your response.