Annoying Ways People Use Sources: Notes

Annoying Ways People Use Sources: Key Terms and Main Ideas 

•  How sloe driving is like sloppy writing: – Writings can forget that their readers are sometimes just as annoyed at writing that fails to move over- This judgement will often be unfair- the reader might completely ignore the merits of your insightful beauty.  

• The Annoyances: – Writing an annoying example of yourself- Though readers probably won’t experience the same level of grief and regret. 
• Dating Spider-Man: When you start or end paragraphs with quotations. Not technically wrong, but often feels “rushed, unexplained, disjointed” and is an “easy out.” 
• The Fix: – The easiest way to effectively massage in quotations is by purposefully returning to each one in your draft to see if you set the stage for your readers 
•  Am I in the Right Movie: – When the quote introduction doesn’t quite match up with the text of the quote itself, usually for grammatical reasons. 

Annoying Ways People Use Sources: Commentary 

I honestly one hundred percent enjoyed reading Stedman’s article about the problems with how most college students quote things. I don’t think collage teachers understand how generate some students are coming out of high school. They just don’t know, they want to do good, but they don’t know. If it was because of the interesting examples of the quirky titles he gave to each problem/section, I was engaged and interested throughout the entire article because I had a personal experience. It will be helpful for me because I used to just throw quotes into my writing without truly introducing them or giving credit to the creator of the text. I didn’t thing nothing wrong with it, how should I know how to do something if I was never taught or introduced to it.  From now on, I’ll make sure to properly introduce and cite my quotations. How should I know how to cite if I never did it, but lesson learned the hard way. 

Annoying Ways People Use Sources: Making Connections  

In the article “Annoying Ways People Use Sources”, Kyle Stedman tries to show people the wrongdoings in they way they quote sources and how to fix them. For example I quoted someone the wrong way, and I got penalized for it. Like Kyle I expected my teacher to fix my wrongdoings. He argues that “the way most of quote sources is as annoying as following a slow driver on the highway”. “Because the readers are either thinking that we have no ideahow to quote things properly; or that we don’t care to quote them properly”. He explains the most common mistakes that us college students make when quoting sources. He talks aboout how to fix them, and examples of good and bad quoting. School is about learning nor repercutions for what you don’t know. 

CITE: Kyle D. Stedman (2011) Annoying Ways People Use Sources. Charles Lowe and Pavel Zemliansky.