Week 3: Using Sources Ethically; Three Forms of Integration; Summary Peer Review
Week of Mon, Aug 31 · week closes Fri, Sep 4 · 10 points
This week's items
- Summary/Response Essaydue Fri, Sep 4 · 10 pts
Exact due times are in Canvas. Late out-of-class assignments accepted up to one week past the original due date. In-class process work and Discussion Board assignments cannot be made up.
Know these cold
- Three forms of integration: summary (condense the main idea), paraphrase (restate a specific passage in your own words), and direct quotation (reproduce the exact words in quotation marks with attribution).
- Use summary when the overall argument of a source matters more than any specific wording. Use paraphrase when a specific idea is important but the author's exact language is not. Use direct quotation when the author's exact words are irreplaceable.
- Plagiarism is presenting another person's words or ideas as your own. Five forms: word-for-word copying without quotation marks, patchwriting, uncited paraphrase, submitting someone else's work, and submitting AI-generated text as your own.
- Every use of a source — summary, paraphrase, or quotation — requires attribution. Attribution means naming the author in a signal phrase, providing an in-text citation, and listing the source in Works Cited.
- Peer review is not proofreading. In peer review you respond to your partner's draft as a reader: Does the summary accurately represent the source? Does the response add the writer's own insight? Is the argument clear?
- Higher-order concerns in peer review: thesis clarity, structure, evidence, and development. Lower-order concerns: grammar, spelling, and punctuation. Address higher-order first — no point fixing comma splices in a paragraph that needs to be cut.
- Revision means re-seeing the draft globally: reorganizing, cutting, adding, and rethinking. Editing means making local improvements: sentence clarity, word choice, grammar. They are separate stages.
- The Summary/Response Essay is due Friday by 11:59 PM via Canvas. Your summary section must represent the source accurately; your response section must add your own analytical insight beyond the summary.
Discussion and forum — how to show up
Discussion post
- In your own words, when would you choose to paraphrase rather than directly quote a source? Give a specific example.
- What makes peer feedback useful? What kind of comment would actually help you improve a draft?
Netiquette from the syllabus: address ideas, not people. Complete sentences, correct spelling. Personal matters go to email, never the board.
Meerk's quiz — open the Week 3 gate
10 questions, no time limit. 85% on your first attempt in a 24-hour window opens the gate. Retakes inside the window are practice — they help you learn, they don't count. Work alone; the point is to know it, not to have seen it.
Dinner Table Question
Ask at home: Someone copies a Wikipedia paragraph, changes a few words, and calls it their own. What form of plagiarism is this — and why does it matter?
En español: Alguien copia un párrafo de Wikipedia, cambia algunas palabras y lo llama suyo. ¿Qué forma de plagio es esta y por qué importa?