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For this assignment, you will choose and connect 3 (or maybe four) of the best/most contestable/most important secondary sources (majority must be scholarly) you have come across. Pick sources that make arguments and take positions, since these will be the most fruitful sources when it comes time for you to take stances in agreement or disagreement with them. Do not just go with the first sources you find, but evaluate their merits, their relevance, and their potential for comparative analysis (note, sometimes wildly different sources can be fruitfully compared). Likewise, you will probably need to continue researching beyond this assignment; it is partly meant to get the ball rolling. There are a few steps that you will need to consider as you write about the source. You will need to briefly summarize their central argument and purpose. But simply summarizing is not enough, since that does not allow for critical engagement. After you describe the source, you will evaluate and engage with it: what was the target audience? Was it persuasive? What was its strength or weakness? What ideas and questions did it raise? These are just some examples of evaluative questions you could think about. Finally, I would like you to begin formulating your own response. This could be a description of how you imagine it would be useful to your paper or a specific response to its claims. However, this assignment should not turn into a pre-draft of the final essay. That argument will come later. Furthermore, this would not be a conceptual synthesis paper if we did not synthesize some concepts. What I mean by this is that you should try to isolate or articulate the ideas, notions, observations, or theories that make these sources significant. If possible, try to sum them up with an overarching idea, characteristic, or keyword. Then, I would like you to put each source into dialogue with the others. How did their terminology or arguments compare? Does one correct or expand on the other? Do the ideas of one help you to better understand the others? Where do they overlap and where do they diverge? Thinking about this can be useful in mapping out a general overview of the conversation you will be entering. In this respect, I think it would also