Position Essay On Student Source Use In The Academy
based on reading 4 articles “Shitty First Drafts,” “Writing from Sources, Writing from Sentences,”* “Learning to Praise” and “Mother Tongues” by Amy Tan . you have to reflect on our own source use and research in college. This assignment asks you to argue a position on student writing in the academy using the above readings and your own experience as a college writer. This “position” doesn’t need to offer a solution or take a definitive stance; it may, for example, argue about the challenge of writing without unintentionally plagiarizing, or writing in English when your primary language, or the language used in your home is not English, and delve deeply into all the expectations that accompany this challenge.
