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Transmitting Ideas

Ideas about using non-violent resistance to enact change have passed from person to person.
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Your Ideas and Research
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In the course of researching and writing a paper, you must read through various resources identifying the key points that support your ideas or argument. You then combine the points from resources with your own ideas to create a new entity of your own on the topic. This process of integrating information from resources and writing your own body of work is called synthesizing.
Images: ©Vithalbhai Jhaveri/GandhiServe, Courtesy of The Thoreau Society, Lincoln, MA, MLK courtesy WMU Archives & Regional History.
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