Assessing and Integrating Sources
Aligned to W.11-12.8 — Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts.
What this lesson teaches
Gathering information means judging it — weighing a source's authority, purpose, and limits before using it, then integrating it in your own frame with honest attribution. Blend quotation, paraphrase, and citation so the source supports your point without taking over your voice.
Worked example
A writer finds a striking statistic on a company's own blog; recognizing the company benefits from that number, she treats it as a claim to verify, finds the same figure in an independent study, and cites the study instead — the fact survives, but only after its source was tested.
Practice questions
- Evaluate a source by naming who made it, why, and one limitation it carries.
- Take one idea from a source and integrate it as a paraphrase that keeps your own sentence structure.
- Write the same idea as a short quotation with attribution and explain when quoting beats paraphrasing here.
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Every lesson comes with a video taught in English and Spanish — the same video the QR code in the printed workbook opens.
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Evaluar e Integrar Fuentes
Reunir información significa juzgarla — sopesar la autoridad, el propósito y los límites de una fuente antes de usarla, y luego integrarla en tu propio marco con atribución honesta. Combina la cita, la paráfrasis y la referencia para que la fuente apoye tu punto sin apoderarse de tu voz.
Ejemplo: Una escritora halla una estadística llamativa en el blog de una empresa; al reconocer que la empresa se beneficia de ese número, lo trata como una afirmación por verificar, encuentra la misma cifra en un estudio independiente y cita el estudio — el dato sobrevive, pero solo después de poner a prueba su fuente.
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