Rhetorical Research

A note on choosing a second source: I really do  think the extended metaphor of “voices in a conversation” applies to  finding another source related to our topic. Let’s say you were  interested in researching and writing about the effects of World War II  on Corvallis, Oregon (a suitably narrow, specific, and not over-studied  topic, and thus a good one for our project!). One way of finding another  source, perhaps, would simply be to type some search terms in google,  or in the 1search bar at the OSU Library website. In other words, you  could just do the search all over again. But, another, and perhaps a  smarter way to find another “voice in the conversation” would be to  which voices that source is responding. I recommend checking out the  references within the source you analyzed for Rhetorical Research 1. Who  does that source mention? Who does that source cite? There are related  sources right there! (On the other hand, Google Scholar allows you to  see a list of works that have cited a source since it was published. So,  for instance, if I could find “The Effects of World War Two on  Corvallis, Oregon” by H.G. Egglestein on Google Scholar—an entirely  made-up source, by the way—it would generate a list of sources that have  cited, and as such, responded to that initial source.