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Write with sources

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
https://youtu.be/YcN4lABIaSE
2 minute video advice from a Harvard student

2. Questions to write more with sources

You can write through your sources by answering these questions in your work.

  1. Who is missing from your sources? You can write about people that my source authors chose not to include.
  2. 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.
  3. Where next? You can write about what your sources should do next in their work.