Chapter Fifteen

Chapter fifteen is about using your sources to accomplish your purposes, and how to effectively incorporate them into your project. The first part describes how to work the ideas of others into your paper to best present their arguments and support your own. This can be done by introducing your argument with a quote, express disagreements on your issue with quotes, provide evidence from someplace more credible and authoritative than yourself, define processes, set a mood, support examples, or qualify a point. The second part of chapter fifteen is about integrating your sources into your project. This includes using attributions and in-text citations. It's important to keep your ideas and the ideas of your sources separate. It also talks about using quotes, either partial, complete, or block lengths, and summarizing or paraphrasing, and how to weave in the attributions in each situation.
This chapter is very helpful to me, as it lays the grounds for using your sources effectively. This is important to know because it separates good writing techniques and plagiarism. I found the first part of the chapter that explains how we can use quotes and such to complement our ideas to be very helpful. In the second part, we are given a long list of common attribute words that we can use, such as 'according to,' 'affirmed,' and 'interpreted.' These are a great help because I feel like I have been using the same words over and over, and it's great to have some variety. Glad we read Chapter fifteen when we did, it answered some of the questions I wasn't even sure how to form into questions.