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Summary

Margaret Kantz writes an article on ways to help students write their papers. Her article isn’t just a bunch of facts but makes a story out of it, by having characters of two types of students, one that understands how to use her texts and another student who doesn’t know how to make arguments. She uses these students as of what they are doing right and what they are doing wrong with writing a paper, and along the way gives tips on what to fix. Most student’s problems with papers are they find just giving the facts without comments easier. This I believe to be true, you have the source in front of you with all the information and instead of thinking through each piece of information and questioning them, rewording and paraphrasing is much quicker. Kantz also states that you should know how to interpret your readings, should be able to understand what you are reading because it will be much easier to comment on the sources. Although many students want their papers to be perfect and not have any wrong information, you should think through of what could be wrong with the sources. The sources you get aren’t always true and you may catch it or find two sources with two different types of information which will leave you confused, but don’t take it as a bad thing. This is the type of information that could help you with making judgments and commenting on those sources.

Question

Why is important to question your sources?

Response

Because in that way your own paper is going to be reliable and also because of the fact that the more you know about your sources and the facts that you are presenting as true the more you can elaborate on your own tought and argue in favor of your theory , having facts that you understand backing up what you write.