Working with Sources

The Art of the Ethical Interview

This multiple-step activity helps student develop ethical best practices for interviewing that they can use for their own research projects.

Mining Reading

This activity introduces the concept of mining reading, a way of reading for research that asks students to mine texts for ideas and extensions for a research project.

Searching for BEAM (Background, Exhibit, Argument, and Method) to Guide Research

This activity, derived from Joseph Bizup, teaches research by helping students understand their sources through a rhetorical framework.

Degrees of Quotation

In this activity derived from Joseph Bizup's, students review a handout about the different rhetorical impacts of quoting and paraphrasing strategies, and then apply them to their own writing.

Synthesis Matrix

This activity prepares students to write their text-in-conversation assignment or literature review. Using a chart or matrix students relate different sources to each other according to themes, topics, keywords, or codes.