CHAPTER 9
Summarizing, Paraphrasing, Quoting, and Synthesizing Sources

As you saw in Chapter 8, before you can decide which material to use to support your arguments, you need to evaluate a variety of potential sources. After you decide which sources you will use, you can begin thinking about where you might use each source and about how to integrate information from the sources you have chosen into your essay in the form of summary, paraphrase, and quotation. When you actually write your argument, you will synthesize the sources into your paper, blending them with your own ideas and interpretations (as the student writer did when she wrote the MLA research paper in Chapter 10).