Working with a partner, agree upon an essay that you will both read from Chapters 8–12 or 16, examining it as a potential source for a research argument. As you read it, choose about a half-dozen...

Working with a partner, agree upon an essay that you will both read from Chapters 8–12 or 16, examining it as a potential source for a research argument. As you read it, choose about a half-dozen words, phrases, or short passages that you would likely quote if you used the essay in a paper and attach a frame or signal phrase to each quotation. Then compare the passages you selected to quote with those your partner culled from the same essay. How do your choices of quoted material create an image or ethos for the original author that differs from the one your partner has created? How do the signal phrases shape a reader’s sense of the author’s position? Which set of quotations best represents the author’s argument? Why?