Existing pedagogical approaches to research source use commonly frame sources as materials to be incorporated "into" texts. The worknets project presented in this article provides an alternative concerned with slowly tracing associations "along" semantic, bibliographic, affinity-based, and choric aspects of the research source and across the contexts from which it was produced. These four sets of associations complement established approaches to source use while also illuminating qualities of a source that draw on network logics to support rhetorical invention and inquiry processes across the disciplines.