Presenting Evidence

Back in HW 6.1, I urged you to organize ¶s around ideas, not around bits of evidence. Here’s a list of possibilities, by no means exhaustive:

• Statistics (comparing one year to another, or noting the fraction of articles on X that also mention Y)
• A pattern identified in X articles, with specific instances discussed in the body of the ¶
• An emotional tendency in a group of related articles
• An odd exception: one article discussed in depth for a full ¶

Rather than mechanically creating one ¶ for each source in your collection, much better to fashion ¶s in response to the qualities you perceive in your sources.

To get you thinking about this in greater depth, here’s here’s an article I wrote last summer on the first fifteen years of Marvel’s character, Iron Man. It’s a long essay, so you needn’t read past page 20 (¶24) in preparation for class.

Post as a response below:
List three ¶s (identified by the # in the left margin) where you find me using primary sources. For each one:

• quote the ¶’s first sentence,
• note the kind of source being presented
• describe how sources are presented (as statistics, as examples in quick succession, as examples in depth, etc.)

In regard to that last bullet, aim for variety; in your three examples, see if you can identify three distinct ways of presenting evidence.