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Using the Source Sandwich Strategy
Internal Content Placement
Strategies to Have a Flawless Argument
You have
finally found a source that will support the sub-point topic of one of
your body-paragraphs. The paragraph—as a whole—will be
filled with source sandwiches that properly argue your overall point of the
body-paragraph—which stems from the THESIS statement.
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.
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