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1 Summarize the main ______________________________

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thought of the topic in ______________________________
paragraph form. ______________________________
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1. What are the main ______________________________
arguments? ______________________________
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2. What is the point of this book ______________________________
or article? ______________________________
3. What topics are covered? ______________________________
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4. If someone asked what this ______________________________
article/book is about, what ______________________________
would you say? ______________________________
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5. The length of your ______________________________
annotations will determine ______________________________
how detailed your ______________________________
summary is. ______________________________
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In summarizing, one can paraphrase. ______________________________
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•Paraphrasing is writing in one’s own ______________________________
words ideas expressed by someone else. ______________________________
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 It is not directly quoting the ______________________________
source material but one has ______________________________
to state the source of the ______________________________
information. ______________________________
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4.2 Assess: ______________________________
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1. Evaluate the authority or ______________________________
background of the author. ______________________________
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 2. What is the goal of this source? ________________________________
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3. Comment on the intended ________________________________
audience. ________________________________
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4. Compare or contrast this work ________________________________
with another you have cited. ________________________________
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5. Is this source biased or objective? ________________________________
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6. Is it a useful source? Is the ________________________________
information reliable? ________________________________
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7. Lastly, explain how this work ________________________________
illuminates your bibliography ________________________________
topic. ________________________________
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4.3 Reflect : ________________________________
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 Once you've summarized and ________________________________
assessed a source, you need to ________________________________
ask how it fits into your ________________________________
research. ________________________________
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 Was this source helpful to ________________________________
you? ________________________________
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 How does it help you shape ________________________________
your argument? ________________________________
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 How can you use this source in ________________________________
your research project? ________________________________
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 Has it changed how you think ________________________________
about your topic? ________________________________
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 What is the applicability to ________________________________
your own research? ________________________________
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