Annoying Ways People Use Sources: Post

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In the article “Annoying Ways People Use Sources”, Kyle Stedman tries to show people the wrongdoings in the 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 idea; how 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 about how to fix them, and examples of good and bad quoting. School is about learning nor repercussions for what you don’t know. 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. Kyle D’s issue of how writers incorrectly use sources in their writing. He stated that writers do one of two things. Writers use a source incorrectly because they don’t know the proper rule or writers use a source incorrectly because they simply just don’t care. Kyle also went into detail on how to fix it to shed some light on how to use a source correctly for those who didn’t/don’t know how and/or to reinforce the correct way for those who don’t care. Over all if someone doesn’t know then you can’t get mad or penalized for it. Like when the said the slow drivers are like sloppy writing, because the driver might not know the speed limit but when he sees the limit sigh, he or she knows. Either way they’re going to be unaware of the rules and regulations unless someone says something to correct them. 

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