Dialogue of Sources Assignment



Dialogue of Sources Assignment

You can move from note-taking to formulating your argument through a creative assignment we call the dialogue of sources. Why a dialogue? Throughout Envision, we emphasize that research is social – it is a relationship with the people whose ideas and writing comes before you. Thus, you as a researcher and writer are now contributing to this conversation, building on the work of others, and adding a new perspective. Indeed, this notion of writing as communal is the reason why we use the author’s name when citing a quotation or an idea; remember that all your sources are authored sources. If you think of texts as written by people such as yourself, you will have an easier time remembering to acknowledge their ideas and integrate their quotations into your essay.

To put this idea into writing, you can compose a “dialogue of sources” – or literal conversation that you might have with your sources if the authors were all sitting around the seminar table with you. In other words, you can think of this writing assignment as a fictional conversation among the primary and secondary sources of your research paper that identifies each one’s central argument and main idea ................
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