Using sources
imagine that you're at your family dinner table, with all of your family members around you. everyone is casually eating and talking amongst themselves when your father turns to you and asks how your day was. before you can open your mouth to answer the question, other family members start to answer the question based on what they have seen or heard about you for the day. initially this is frustrating, but you decide to listen to everyone's perceptions of how your day went. everybody has a little bit of information that they toss into the conversation. some of their ideas are solid and factual, and some of them are fictional and completely off-base. by filtering through other's observations and ideas, your family has created a fairly complete picture of your day.

research works much the same way. based on the information that you locate and how you assemble the information together, you can either provide a clear or very fuzzy picture for your readers. your objective is to have the best information and to compile it in a way that sheds additional light on your subject, not darkness.

in this lesson, you'll become more familiar with how to use sources effectively in research writing.

objectives

synthesize information from multiple sources.
explain what a synthesis of two authors writing is

Drag each label to the correct location. each label can be used more than once. based on this excerpt from f. scott fitzgerald's "bernice bobs her hair," match each character with the type of character element he or she represents. "you may as well stop making a fool of yourself over warren mcintyre. he doesn't care a snap of his fingers about you." for a tense moment they regarded each other—marjorie scornful, aloof; bernice astounded, half-angry, half-afraid. then two cars drove up in front of the house and there was a riotous honking. both of them gasped faintly, turned, and side by side hurried out. all through the bridge party bernice strove in vain to master arising uneasiness. she had offended marjorie, the sphinx of sphinxes. with the most wholesome and innocent intentions in the world she had stolen marjorie's property. she felt suddenly and horribly guilty. after the bridge game, when they sat in an informal circle and the conversation became general, the storm gradually broke. little otis ormonde inadvertently precipitated it. "when you going back to kindergarten, otis? " some one had asked. "me? day bernice gets her hair bobbed." "then your education's over," said marjorie quickly. "that's only a bluff of hers. i should think you'd have realized." "that a fact? " demanded otis, giving bernice a reproachful glance. "there's a lot of bluffs in the world," continued marjorie quite pleasantly. "i should think you'd be young enough to know that, otis." "well," said otis, "maybe so. but gee! with a line like bernice's—" "really? " yawned marjorie. "what's her latest bon mot? " no one seemed to know. in fact, bernice, having trifled with her muse's beau, had said nothing memorable of late. "was that really all a line? " asked roberta curiously. bernice hesitated. she felt that wit in some form was demanded of her, but under her cousin's suddenly frigid eyes she was completely incapacitated.

What do we know about the mother in “two kinds”? select all that apply. she came from china. she had two daughters who died. her mother, father, and first husband are dead. she is part japanese.

Select all that apply. because the length of his story is limited, short story writers typically: