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Research and source use:

Research assignments and citations start early in the semester. These assignments include source location and evaluation, summary and response. We write annotations (works cited entry, summary, response).

In text citations are introduced before attempting integration.

We don’t integrate the sources until the middle of the semester.

Work on effective research, source evaluation, and integration continues throughout the semester. For sources, we begin with peer-reviewed and other traditional sources then move to non-traditional sources.

Writings:

First essay is personal in nature and does not require sources.

• Skill focus: audience and rhetoric situation. 
• Topic focus: subculture or social issue.

Second requires source use, databases, and scholarly articles.

• Skill focus: audience rhetoric situation, structure, and thesis.
• Topic focus: local, state or regional issue.

Third requires sources both databases and “non-traditional” sources. New emphasis on

• Skill focus: audience rhetoric situation, structure (paragraphing), thesis and entering/contributing to ongoing conversation.
• Topic focus: popular culture or current event.