From Sources to Purpose: A Guide to Researched Writing

Unlike other texts that focus on "the research paper" as a product, From Sources to Purpose: A Guide to Researched Writing emphasizes process throughout, as evidenced by its title --- it is a guide to researched writing. The text presents a logical, building block approach to determining purpose, finding meaning in sources, validating sources, discovering context and connections in sources, drawing inferences, and critiquing sources. As writers work on their major project, they use their own sources to write three short intermediate papers.