Your Secondary Source Integration should include all of the following components. You do not have to put them in this order, but this is an outline that many students have found successful in the past.

1. A version of your "evolved thesis statement" (We will talk about what this means later in the week).

2. Identification of your artifact/primary source (who created it, where it was first published, and on what date).

3. A description of your primary source (so that the reader can understand what you are analyzing without having to see or hear it)

4. Your initial analysis of the artifact (you may cut and paste some of this from your Primary Source Analysis but you should also expand and edit parts of your analysis based on my comments and feedback from your WEx peer reviews)

5. Introduce your first secondary source (Include the author, title, publication source and date, and then summarize the author's claims.)

6. Use the first secondary source to analyze your artifact (How do the author's claims expand, change, complicate, or contradict your initial analysis of the artifact?)

7. Introduce your second secondary source (Include the author, title, publication source and date, and then summarize the author's claims.)

8. Use the second secondary source to analyze your artifact (How do the author's claims expand, change, complicate, or contradict your initial analysis of the artifact?)

9. Put the secondary sources in conversation (Show how the two secondary sources relate to each other or contradict each other)

10. Add yourself to the conversation (Use your own ideas to add, expand, complicate, ask questions, or form new conclusions based on the ways you have used your secondary sources to develop your analysis.)