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Remember that the SSI must be turned in here on Carmen and also on WEx (Links to an external site.) .
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 carefully and to consult our textbook The Writer’s Companion (especially Chs. 5 and 6) as you seek to extend the work completed in STEP 1: Primary Source Analysis.
Your work should be 1,200 words, 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. One source must be scholarly, peer-reviewed. 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 (WC, pp. 57-58)
· Assert and maintain your own critical voice rather than letting the secondary evidence speak for you
· Develop an evolving thesis to orient your analysis and source integration
· 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:
Extending Your PSA
· 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 onto 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.
· Use the secondary evidence to extend and revise the analysis completed in Step 1: Primary Source Analysis. This is an opportunity to add new sentences to existing paragraphs, to add new paragraphs, and, in general, to revise the existing Primary Source Analysis.
Developing Your SSI
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 (Chapter 4 in WC), but also with the basics of Interpretation (Chapter 6 in WC). This step requires you to demonstrate how to effectively use secondary sources (57-61).
3. Focus your evolving thesis around a compelling analytical claim while also accounting for all relevant evidence. You should especially focus on:
1. Making your Sources Speak by “conveying to your readers why they mean what you say they meant” (67). You might ask yourself whether or not you have explained the connection between your claims and the secondary evidence completely and explicitly.
2. Putting your Sources into Conversation with One Another (57-58). 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.
3. Integrating Sources into your own writing by paraphrasing or “splic[ing] quotations into your text” (59).
4. Citing Sources in proper MLA Style (See “MLA Citation and Style Guide”). You should end the assignment with correct MLA Works Cited entries of the two secondary sources and your primary source.
Secondary Source Integration Point Breakdown
15 points: Meets basic requirements
Paper meets length requirement, is properly formatted, has one primary source and two secondary sources (one of which is scholarly, peer-reviewed), and includes a works cited page.
15 points: Relevant, credible, timely secondary sources
Secondary sources meet the qualifications outlined in the annotated bibliography prompt. They should be relevant (i.e. if you are writing about Michael Scott, a source addressing masculinity in colonial times is not relevant), credible (by and large, publicly edited content and blogs are not credible in an academic research paper), and timely (an article about American sitcoms written in 1976 is not going to speak to Big Bang Theory as well as an article written in the 2000s). Dictionaries do not count as one of the two secondary sources.
20 points: PSA revision
Student has revised PSA per peer and instructor feedback. The paper feels focused and in-depth, and each paragraph contributes equally.
20 points: Secondary sources integrated successfully
Paper puts secondary sources in conversation. Student demonstrates an understanding of the secondary source arguments, and engages these arguments in his/her primary source discussion. The secondary sources support or complicate the student's existent arguments. Secondary sources should be quoted more than once; however, the secondary sources should not take over the paper/replace the student's writing.
10 points: Proper citations
Paper correctly uses MLA style citations, both in-text and in the works cited. Secondary sources are paraphrased or spliced into student text. Block quote format is used for 4+ lines (this should be used sparingly, if at all).
20 points: Legible, coherent, organized
Paper is proofread and free of errors. Paper utilizes academic conventions, including style and tone considerations. Paragraphs work together.
