How to properly integrate sources into your research paper

Integrating Sources O What does the word “Integrate”

mean? O How would you integrate a source?

Introducing SAMMY SOURCE!!!! – Help him, Help you write an awesome paper!

Step 1 O Prepare your source

(This where your notecards help!)

O Know what information you are taking out of a source to include in your paper

O Sammy has a lot of pages know what you are using

Step 2 O Introduce your source O Give your extracted

information a lead in, so that it flows nicely with what you have been writing, and the reader understands where the information comes from

O Introduce Sammy so it is not an awkward party

Step 3, Choice A O Summarize the

information from the source

O Include a relatively brief non-biased account, in your own words of the main ideas in a source or a source passage

O You want to know what makes Sammy tick

Step 3, Choice B O Paraphrase the

information from the source

O Restate, in your own words, of a passage of text. Its structure reflects (but does not copy) the structure of the source passage, and may roughly the same length, but uses different words

O Put Sammy’s ideas in your own words

Step 3, Choice C O Quote the

information in the source

O Use the exact words of a source, making sure to use quotation marks around the words.

O Sometimes Sammy says it best and does all the heavy lifting

Step 4 O Last, but not least…..O Explain what the information

means! Including a citation or information is not any good if you don’t explain it!!

O Remember to provide a citation (footnote) in Chicago style – SEE THE BIBLIOGRAPHY GUIDE

O Remember….when in doubt SITE IT. Each paragraph should have at least one citation at the end of it.

O Give Sammy the credit that he deserves!

Step 5 – Sammy is hungry for more citations – About 10 should do the trick

Do Now: O Write down what your favorite food

isO Write down all of the ingredients that

go into it