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English 1110.01

Spring Semester 2016

Elizabeth Nixon

STEP 3: Secondary Source Integration

The Secondary Source Integration asks you to revisit your work in the Primary Source Analysis and the Annotated Bibliography. You will extend or rethink your original analytical claims and integrate secondary evidence seamlessly and effectively into your own writing.

Below you will find a list of objectives for the assignment. Be sure to follow the directions outlined in Getting Started and Completing the Assignment carefully and to consult our textbook Writing Analytically (especially Chs. 7 and 8) as you seek to extend the work completed in STEP 1: Primary Source Analysis. Your work should be double-spaced, typed in 12-point font, and set to 1” margins.

Objectives:

· Identify two (2) timely, useful, credible, and relevant secondary sources from Step 2: Annotated Bibliography. Your work with these sources should help you revise and extend the work you completed in Step 1: Primary Source Analysis.

· Demonstrate the ability to comprehend the central arguments of these sources.

· Perform meaningful, thoughtful analysis of these secondary sources—in other words, enter into a conversation with the sources by making the sources speak rather than letting them speak for themselves ( WA, pg. 186).

· Assert and maintain your own critical voice rather than letting the secondary evidence speak for you.

· Integrate secondary sources into your analysis by paraphrasing and/or directly citing the writers’ language and ideas.

· Include proper in-text citations of each source and an appropriately formatted Works Cited page using MLA guidelines.

Getting Started:

There are several steps you might take in order to get started and to avoid what Writing Analytically calls “source anxiety” (182).

· Return to your Primary Source Analysis, look over my comments, and decide which parts you plan to focus on in your final paper. This may require extending or deleting parts of your initial analysis.

· Consider each secondary source’s main argument and how it relates to, supports, complicates, or differs from the argument you plan to make in your final paper.

· The Secondary Source Integration should not simply be added on to the end of your Primary Source Analysis but rather woven in and responding to specific elements of your own analysis.

· Choose two sources that will allow you to engage in conversation, not just sources that agree with or support your main point.

Completing the Assignment:

Once you have selected your two sources, use the secondary evidence to extend and revise the analysis completed in Step 1: Primary Source Analysis. Take this opportunity to add new sentences to existing paragraphs, to add new paragraphs, and, in general, to revise the existing Primary Source Analysis. After this extension and revision, the completed assignment should be 4-5 pages.

In order to complete the extension and revision of your previous work, consider the following steps:

1. Focus on your own analytical claims. Interaction with secondary sources should allow for your Research Questions to evolve and to take shape, enabling you to revise or extend claims made in the previous assignment.

2. Focus on analyzing and integrating the secondary evidence into the conversation. This step can be difficult as it builds on the skills you have developed not only with the Five Analytical Moves, but also with the basics of Interpretation (Chapter 2 in WA). This step requires you to demonstrate competence in all Six Strategies for Analyzing Sources ( WA, pgs. 186-195). You should especially focus on:

a. Making your Sources Speak by “articulating how the source has led to the conclusion you draw from it” (187). You might ask yourself whether or not you have explained the connection between your claims and the secondary evidence completely and explicitly.

b. Putting your Sources into Conversation with One Another (191-193). This move requires that you understand the arguments of the secondary sources and are able to convey this understanding via paraphrase and direct citation. As the title suggests, the emphasis of this step is on you making the sources speak rather than letting the words that you paraphrase or cite speak for themselves or for you; instead, maintain your own critical voice and make clear that the secondary evidence is one part of the conversation, not the featured speaker.

c. Integrating Sources into your own writing by paraphrasing or “splic[ing] quotations into your text” (196-197).

d. Citing Sources in proper MLA Style (227). You should end the assignment with correct MLA Works Cited entries of the two secondary sources and your primary source.

This assignment is due in the Carmen dropbox named Secondary Source Integration by 3/9