The reading that is being synthesized currently focuses on organizing and drafting a research argument paper, with a tad of information on how to revise it.
Outlines can help you organize your paper by deciding where you want to put what points, and then making it easy to switch them around as you figure out how to transition from point to point. It also helps with how you want to incorporate the sources that you have cited, and pairing articles with the points you are making. Eventually you will figure out how you are going to tack on your own opinion and add your own twist to the facts you are presenting. This skeleton provides the springboard that will be the research paper soon.
In drafting you have to remember not to just regurgitate your sources, but provide your own original voice to the issue. Learn how to paraphrase the sources and don’t use too many quotations. Most of the meat of the paper will be in summarizing your own points, and the main idea of the sources.
After drafting, revision is critical. Your first draft is going to be far from perfect. Sometimes it will be a big problem, such as a thesis that’s too broad, but sometimes it’s a quick fix like removing quotations. More than likely, there will be an overbearing problem that will have to be taken care of in the next drafts. You can either identify these yourself or get a peer or fresh set of eyes to analyze it for you, but one things for certain, there’s always something to be fixed.
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