1) If any sensible person would agree with the point you're making, what is the purpose of you arguing it?
2) Are you using the source because it presents an argument you want to consider in detail, intellectually engage with, agree, disagree, twist, reframe, etc? (A friend, enemy, frenemy, etc.) Or are you using the source as a plug-in for a certain fact or view you're already convinced to argue? Not to be a prude, but nothing but one-night-stands does not make a great dating life.
3) Notice how those previous two points go together. If you take one of those "off the rack" book report topics like, to cite a general template, "Social Problem X Exists and Is Bad", then you are disagreeing with basically nobody. So then when you go to the party, you're not really looking to meet anyone you'll want to see after tomorrow morning. You just look for those plug-in sources.
And yet somehow I still manage to keep this job. So far.
Another, less innuendo-laden metaphor would be Carver not actually knowing any of the kids in the neighborhood he is policing with his "rip and run" style. As discussed in this article.
On a related note, please include either page numbers for MLA style or year dates for APA style within your parenthetical citations!
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