See It in Practice

My next step in my process was to complete my draft and integrate my sources into my writing as a drafted. It feels really good to have the first draft complete.

I found that I really like following the process outlined in the Locating Information and Writing with Sources area of the OWL because it made it really easy to draft. I had written so much, planned so much, and knew my source material so well that it was easy when it was time to draft.

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You will notice that I worked hard to follow the recommendations outline in the Online Writing Lab about source integration. As you can see, in both of my quotes I have highlighted here, I have tried to provide signal phrases for each of the sources.

However, there is still much work to do, as of course, this is just my rough draft. I am going to take a break from this and then come back for some revision and editing later. Those will be my next steps, but for now, I feel so good having completed my rough draft!