The Source Sandwich Tutorial
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How you develop the content of your body-paragraph(s) will determine how effective you are at persuading your audience that your views on the issue are the most valid and therefore, must be agreed to.
Think of your academic, argument essay as a debate. Your audience will not speak back to you. You will not know how your audience feels on the subject. You will simply present your ideas as clearly as possible and follow specific internal content placement strategies to make sure that by the time the audience finishes reading the very last sentence of your essay, they have no other option but to agree with you.
Using the Source Sandwich Strategy
Internal Content Placement Strategies to Have a Flawless Argument
Internal Content Placement Strategies to Have a Flawless Argument
Using Sources: Anytime you want to use a source in your body-paragraph content, it must be embedded within a sentence of your own. This does not mean that it can be wedged between two original sentences of your own. On the contract. If you are unable to integrate brief source concepts directly into the content of your own sentence, then you should not use it.
Outside source content should never simply monopolize a whole sentence in the essay. These types of sentences are like the Ad-Lib worksheets of years past. It is as if you have your regular content, and then you used the 'sticker approach' to insert one block of outside content to make the content keep moving along. Furthermore, these sentences seem to appear out of nowhere as if they were simply “dropped from the sky” in-between sentences of your own. Source materials must be contained within your own sentences.
To embed a source into a sentence, you must make the source content part of your own sentence. In addition, the outside source material should be paraphrased or summarized as much as possible for full integration into your own writing content. Using a direct quote is rarely appropriate unless the specific details presented by the original author cannot be reworded without losing clarity.
Outside source content should never simply monopolize a whole sentence in the essay. These types of sentences are like the Ad-Lib worksheets of years past. It is as if you have your regular content, and then you used the 'sticker approach' to insert one block of outside content to make the content keep moving along. Furthermore, these sentences seem to appear out of nowhere as if they were simply “dropped from the sky” in-between sentences of your own. Source materials must be contained within your own sentences.
To embed a source into a sentence, you must make the source content part of your own sentence. In addition, the outside source material should be paraphrased or summarized as much as possible for full integration into your own writing content. Using a direct quote is rarely appropriate unless the specific details presented by the original author cannot be reworded without losing clarity.
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