A Writer's Handbook
- Introduction
- Purpose & Audience
- Introduction for Essays
- Body Paragraphs for Essays
- Conclusion Paragraphs for Essays
- Essay Writing Organization: The Outline
- Annotating Readings
- Development Ideas for General, Rhetorical, and Literary Writing
- Finding Research for Essays
- Using Research for Essays
- Writing About Research
- MLA Handbook Summary for Citations
- Final Thoughts on Essays
- Literary Element Index
- Appendix of Example Papers
Sources: Primary and Secondary
- Primary sources are the original documents of discussion. This could be a piece of literature or art, or this could range from a law to a bill being discussed politically, or a movie or TV show or advertisement. Anything that is the original source is called primary.
- Secondary sources are sources that critically comment on primary sources. These source authors analyze or argue their points about these primary sources. Secondary sources are used to research to back up your ideas about the primary sources.
Exercise 12
- Exercise 12: SourcesThis exercise will test your knowledge of primary and secondary sources and also whether a source is acceptable for use in an academic paper.
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