“Annoying Ways People Use Resources” Notes

Summary: While reading “Annoying Ways People Use Resources” by Kyle D. Stedman, I was mostly seeing paragraphs and then ways to fix the paragraph to make it right. Instead of just writing a paper and then randomly introducing a quote out of nowhere. Without even giving a page number to it or the authors last name, or even explaining why you picked that quote and why it stuck out to you with what you are writing about. It is good to introduce your quote for an example you could say “Robert talks a lot about ways to prepare for when a tornado comes, one main point he suggests is….” and then after that you could put your quote in and then end it with the authors last name following with the page number. It is good to just make the readers phone what is going on and not be confused with what the quote meant or why you chose that for your paper.

Commentary: Kyle D. Stedman talks a lot about ways to do correct citations and make your papers perfect. She talks about where you should and shouldn’t put a quote and how to sort it. I think that it is really annoying when there is a paper you are reading and they add a quote in there out of no where and it may confuse you while reading the paper. You should always have your reader engaged in what you are writing about. Instead of putting a citation in your paper, it would be best for you to tell the reader where you got that quote, why you chose that quote and reflect on it. Make the reader want to read further into your paper and not get caught at any part where they are confused. In high school we did a lot of quotes and how to intrude/finish a quote. It has helped me a lot in college as well. I also notice when I am reading someone else blog or revising a paper, I see them just throwing in a quote. It does frustrate me because it can throw me off in a paper and I was taught how to do it all throughout high school.

Key terms:

Classification- the action or process of classifying something according to shared qualities or characteristics

Interpret- explain the meaning of

Authoritative- able to be trusted as being accurate or true

Modify- make partial or minor changes to something

Ethical- relating to moral principles