Writing from Sources

by Brenda Spatt

Writing from Sources provides students with a complete guide to the skills of doing research and integrating the results confidently and effectively into their own prose, while providing instructors with all the readings and prompts they need for a complete course in source-based writing. To teach students a reliable process for working with sources, the book builds systematically from simpler skills such as finding a topic and looking for sources to more demanding ones such as choosing appropriate sources and integrating them smoothly with the writer's own ideas, providing detailed guidance and examples for each step. Many exercises and writing assignments, supported by numerous readings ranging from brief excerpts to full essays, provide ample practice in every skill.

Genres: Writing

688 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1987

Reviews

[Tracy · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'll be using this as a foundational text to teach a research writing course at UML this spring. Let's all clear the dust from our parched throats, shall we? The rhetoric is academically dusty for a subject that tends to mirror the previous sentiment; however, the exercises will be quite useful in class for hands on application of concepts.

[Jessica · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the textbook for the ENG 114 class I'm teaching this summer. Great material and exercises to help students learn how to analyze academic articles and synthesize multiple sources to put together a research paper.