Strategies

Focus on the question to which you are responding.

Explain the authors' positions and your own using specific examples from the articles, your experience and observations, and possibly, other texts.

Organize the paper so that you can report the various viewpoints and compare and contrast them. Introduce the common issue/question, connect ideas, and clearly identify whose ideas are referred to.

Write in a clear, readable style in language and tone appropriate to your subject and audience.