WRTC 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Secondary Source
15 Sep 2017
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Central to everything else you"re going to talk about. It controls everything you"re going to talk about in the paper. Forecasts the different topics you talk about during your paper. Specific and debatable, don"t make it vague (something everyone agrees with, water is wet). Can tie back up to any later points. Some piece of tangible evidence that says, i"m not just saying this. Evidence: primary source, something you come and collect the data yourself, an observation you can make. Your experience supports a claim, however it gets bad when writing scientific papers. Explaining your opinion of a text is still primary. Like when you look up a definition for something. Not hypothetically real, but could help understand your claim. Don"t do a lot of, called sourcing salad. Ex: imagine a world in which an environment where writing professors at jmu were paid more, it would be a much happier learning environment and they would be into their jobs more.
