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ANTH 495: Anthropology Capstone

Research Guide for the Capstone Course in Anthropology

Using your sources to build your evidence, arguments and conclusions

Ask yourself these questions about each of the sources you select to build your evidence, arguments, and conclusions:

Does your source raise questions you hadn't considered or make claims that shape your thinking? -Integrate these into your arguments to develop and focus them further 

Does your source provide evidence for any of your arguments? -Integrate the relevant evidence or data into your own argument and explain its significance

Does your source take a position counter to any of your arguments? -Include these sources to strengthen your own arguments by explaining and providing evidence of why you disagree with them

What relationships do you see between your sources? -Integrate the arguments and evidence from your sources together to use them as building blocks for your own conclusions and arguments

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