The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing by Michael Harvey

Author:Michael Harvey [Harvey, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.

Weaving Sources into Your Prose

How do you weave sources into your writing gracefully? One common way is to use the punch-line technique (see Chapter 3). Start your sentence with set-up information that identifies the text and/or author, and then state the argument of the text itself. Here’s a nice example from Robin Dunbar’s The Trouble with Science:

In his book Contemporary Animal Learning Theory, psychologist Tony Dickinson points out that there are two ways animals might store information about their experiences.

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