Walk Before You Run: Gathering, Synthesizing, and Understanding Your Sources

Below is the credit for Chapter 3 “Walk Before You Run: Gathering, Synthesizing, and Understanding Your Sources”

A Guide to Rhetoric, Genre, and Success in First-Year Writing by Melanie Gagich licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License is the primary text in section 3.1.

The Process of Research Writing by Steven D. Krause licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License is the primary text in section 3.2

The primary texts for 3.3 are

• An Introduction to Research Methods in Sociology by Valerie A. Sheppard licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License is the primary text in section 3.3
• “5.2 Synthesizing in Your Writing” by Yvonne Bruce, Melanie Gagich, and Svetlana Zhuravlova licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License was included near the end of this section to provide more information about synthesizing source material.

Write Here, Right Now: An Interactive Introduction to Academic Writing and Research by Ryerson University licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License is the primary text in section 3.4.

Section 3.5 “Walk Before You Run: Gathering, Synthesizing, and Understanding Your Sources: End-of-Chapter Exercises” was written by Brittany Seay.