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“As you have been reading your researched sources, you have been asking questions of these sources. In fact, you should
be not only asking questions of your sources but also talking back to them. Literally, you are dialoguing with them, that is,
engaging in a conversation with the various authors. One research writing textbook illustrates a way of engaging in this
dialogue that helps you to keep “moving the argument forward” (Alfano and O’Brien 167). This method lets you develop
your argument while you are reading for research. One of the struggles that inexperienced scholars sometimes have is in
losing track of their own argument in a seeming overabundance
of sources. Engaging in this kind of notetaking
dialogue
with these other authors is an excellent way of developing your thesis while also helping you to recognize that you are a
scholar engaging in an academic dialogue.
For this task then, you should begin to develop a dialogue with your sources, much like the examples that you see in the
online handout [PDF format]. Your dialogue should be at least 600700
words in length, although you should recognize that
you will likely keep adding to it as you go further in the research and notetaking
process, preparatory to writing your
argument. Fortunately, you will find that this dialogue will give you material that you will want to incorporate into your
researched argument.
As you have been reading your researched sources, you have been asking questions of these sources. In fact, you should
be not only asking questions of your sources but also talking back to them. Literally, you are dialoguing with them, that is,
engaging in a conversation with the various authors. One research writing textbook illustrates a way of engaging in this
dialogue that helps you to keep “moving the argument forward” (Alfano and O’Brien 167). This method lets you develop
your argument while you are reading for research. One of the struggles that inexperienced scholars sometimes have is in
losing track of their own argument in a seeming overabundance
of sources. Engaging in this kind of notetaking
dialogue
with these other authors is an excellent way of developing your thesis while also helping you to recognize that you are a
scholar engaging in an academic dialogue.
For this task then, you should begin to develop a dialogue with your sources, much like the examples that you see in the
online handout [PDF format]. Your dialogue should be at least 600700
words in length, although you should recognize that
you will likely keep adding to it as you go further in the research and notetaking
process, preparatory to writing your
argument. Fortunately, you will find that this dialogue will give you material that you will want to incorporate into your
researched argument
