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evidence linked to its original source and incorporates the writer’s outside knowl-
edge of the subject.Quotations when practicing synthesis
Quote from Charles Sellers (Applying AP® Historical Thinking Skills, p. 199):These early manufacturers succeeded by exploiting efficiently the most
vulnerable workers forced into the labor market by agrarian crisis. To
utilize the cheapest female and child labor, they hired large families,
housing them in company-owned villages or compounds and feeding
and clothing them from company stores.Quote from David Walker Howe (Applying AP® Historical Thinking Skills,
p. 200):Americans had feared industrialization, lest it create an oppressed,
depraved, and turbulent proletariat. But because these women typically
worked for only a few years prior to marriage, and did so in a morally
protected environment, they did not seem to constitute a permanent
separate working class.Sample analysis:
The debates focus on the extent to which industrialization marginalized
women. Howe believes that women such as the Lowell girls were not a
“permanent separate working class,” and Sellers argues that these women
were “exploit[ed] efficiently.” Exploitation to one is emerging indepen-
dence to another.Here the writer compares and contrasts two historical analyses by incorporating
quotes that are tied to each source (“Howe believes.. .” and “Sellers argues.. .”). He
offers some summary of both in his first and last sentences.Consider the following prompt:
Agree, disagree, or modify this claim: the Market Revolution proved a uni-
fying force for the new nation in regional, social, and socioeconomic terms.Step 1 Understand the prompt, and identify the key words
For a review of this step, see Building AP® Writing Skills in Chapter 1 (p. 22).
Step 2 Brainstorm
For a review of this step, see Building AP® Writing Skills in Chapter 4 (p. 111).
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