Shape information from your sources into a new piece of your own writing.
1. Strategies for writing sources
- Quote and comment
- demonstrates you read the sources and you have your own thoughts about them
- Observe and cite
- puts sources in a step-by-step path that leads to your thesis statement or opinion
2. Questions to write more with sources
You can write through your sources by answering these questions in your work.
- Who is missing from your sources? You can write about people that my source authors chose not to include.
- What is missing from your sources? You can write about gaps that a source did not address or questions they should have tried to answer but did not.
- Where next? You can write about what your sources should do next in their work.