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Pick One, Any One? They're all just encyclopedia articles . . .


Author: Gail Gradowski
Subject: Rhetoric, Composition, and Writing
Source: CORA - Community of Online Research Assignments
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This exercise was designed for 1st year writing students with several different goals in mind: • encourage deeper, closer reading; • introduce the concept that information sources have perspective; • develop vocabulary around describing information and perspective; • acquaint students with the many values/uses of subject encyclopedias; • practice topic narrowing using these types of encyclopedia articles.

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