Synthesizing Your Research Findings

http://writingcommons.org/open-text/writing-processes/focus/1144-synthesis-notes-working-with-sources-to-create-a-first-draft

Working with Direct Quotations

http://writingcommons.org/open-text/research-methods-methodologies/integrate-evidence/incorporate-evidence/453-inserting-or-altering-words-in-a-direct-quotation

http://writingcommons.org/open-text/research-methods-methodologies/integrate-evidence/incorporate-evidence/613-omitting-words-from-a-direct-quotation-mla

Introduce / Cite / Explain

http://writingcommons.org/open-text/research-methods-methodologies/integrate-evidence/incorporate-evidence/647-connecting-source-material-to-claims

Introduction to Overview of Sources Essay

Here is a link to Charles Bazerman’s introduction to this genre of writing:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DI9i-nhMXHDwXd0xDriK-apYGLt3XtB-Rd8a17s9DZo/edit?usp=sharing

Here is a link to a SAMPLE STUDENT essay of Evaluative Comparison with a few explanatory annotations added by me to explain what is going on in each paragraph.  Feel free to use this as a model if it is helpful:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ws8arwlGb-b3CzuB9F3DU36at79MrU07MDlW8jNatBc/edit?usp=sharing

Overview of Sources Essay Assignment for Professor Rodgers’ ENG1121 course

http://writingcommons.org/open-text/research-methods-methodologies/research-primer

http://writingcommons.org/open-text/information-literacy/library-and-internet-research

http://writingcommons.org/open-text/information-literacy/library-and-internet-research/web-search-strategies/810-web-search-strategies

http://writingcommons.org/open-text/information-literacy/library-and-internet-research/using-databases

http://writingcommons.org/open-text/information-literacy/critical-reading-practices/identifying-a-conversation

http://writingcommons.org/open-text/information-literacy/critical-reading-practices/the-guiding-idea-and-argumentative-thesis-statement

http://writingcommons.org/open-text/information-literacy/critical-reading-practices/distinguishing-between-main-points-and-sub-claims