Week 12 — Readings & Resources

Your primary reading is Chapter 12 (in this module). Everything below is the optional, go-deeper layer — pick what helps, skip the rest.

How to use this page

This page has 11 items (5 readings and 6 videos). Allow 59–74 minutes for everything. Each group points back to the matching chapter section and class-session segment, so use the full menu when you want more practice, or take the quick path below.

Every video here has captions: turn them on with the CC button in the player. The chapter covers the same ideas in text.

Pick-one quick path (18–21 min total)

• Synthesizing Research — Learning Hub Writing Resources
• How to Integrate Quotes in Research Papers (and Synthesis Essays)! — Garden of English
• Quote Sandwich — Lauren's the Write Way

① Is my paper an argument or a report?

Chapter 12, Section “Tell an argument from a report” · Session 1, Segment 1, “Argument versus report and sources in conversation” · Remember: your claim leads every paragraph, and each source earns its place by helping you prove it.

• Developing a Researched Argument Essay — Sarah Mallonee — a two-minute overview of developing an argument essay from research. Watch it with the running draft's working thesis in mind, and ask where the claim leads. (video, 2 min) (captions: automatic)
• Using Sources in Your Writing — English Research Guide — why writers use sources at all, how synthesis looks for agreement and disagreement among them, and how to blend each source in with a signal phrase and your own commentary instead of dropping it in. Stop at the end of its sections on using sources; re-seeing the whole draft is next week's work. (reading, 8–12 min)
• Synthesize Your Sources: How to Write the Research Essay — David Taylor — a short lesson on letting your thesis drive the research essay and forming your own point of view to connect your sources. (video, 7 min) (captions: automatic)
• Synthesizing Research — Learning Hub Writing Resources — a handout that names several kinds of relationship between sources, including similarity, contrast, and one source building on another, each with an example sentence. Match each type to the chapter's agree, extend, and disagree. This builds on Week 10's first look at synthesis, when you first put two sources in one sentence. (reading, 5–8 min)

② How do I bring a source in without dropping it?

Chapter 12, Section “Use the four-part integration move” · Session 1, Segment 2, “The four-part move, dropped quotations, and cited paraphrases” · Remember: every borrowed idea needs a signal phrase, its words or a paraphrase, a citation, and your analysis.

• How to Integrate Quotes in Research Papers (and Synthesis Essays)! — Garden of English — tips for bringing sources and quotations into a research paper smoothly, without leaning on stiff lead-ins. Check any citation form it shows against the chapter's MLA examples. (video, 10 min) (captions: automatic)
• Quote Sandwich — Lauren's the Write Way — a three-minute explanation of surrounding a quotation with an introduction before it and your explanation after it. Count the parts against the chapter's four. (video, 3 min) (captions: automatic)
• Don't Drop Quotes — Academic Success Center Blog — a short post on why a quotation set down with no lead-in and no commentary confuses readers, with a three-step fix of context, quotation, and comment. Its examples use APA style, so write yours the MLA way. Use it while working through the Week-12 module overview. (reading, 3–5 min)

③ How do I answer the other side, and can I trust the machine's sources?

Chapter 12, Section “Answer the other side with sources” · Session 2, Segment 3, “Counterargument with sources, balance, and the machine's citations” · Remember: give the other side its best real evidence, answer it, and open every source before you cite it.

• Writing the Counterargument and Rebuttal — Ashley Clark (Ms. Clark's Classroom) — a three-minute walk through stating an objection to your claim and answering it. As you watch, ask which of your own sources holds the other side's best evidence. (video, 3 min) (captions: automatic)
• How to Verify AI-Generated References — The Research Vault — a demonstration of checking a chatbot's reference: whether the authors, journal, and DOI match a real publication, and whether the article really fits the topic. Skip its later use of a chatbot to pull findings; read the source yourself. (video, 6 min) (captions: creator)
• ChatGPT and Fake Citations — Libraries Blog — two librarians explain why chatbots invent citations that sound scholarly but do not exist, and what a chatbot is and is not useful for in research. (reading, 8–12 min)

Optional one-stop reference (free online reference)

• Synthesizing Sources — Online Writing Lab (OWL) — a short reference page on bringing several sources together around your own point; use it to check your synthesis paragraph this week. (reading, 4–6 min)

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