“Annoying Ways People Use Resources” Reflection

This article I was reading by Kyle D. Stedman was an article that just focused more on how to fix paragraphs and wrong ways people are doing it. It is good to understand what you are reading. I thought this article was very helpful. I don’t think it was just daily notes and reflection post, it taught me ideas I can use while writing a paper in class or even writing my blogs. It shows the right way to add a quotation and how to introduce it and how to give page number/author. I was taught a lot in high school how to intrude a quote and reflect on why I chose it for my paper. Writing a paper is difficult for me. I have always thought that writing a thesis was the most difficult thing to do. Every time I did write a thesis and showed my teacher they always said that isn’t exactly what I was looking for. I never had it perfect and I struggled a lot with that in my English classes in high school. I did get a lot of help and became better at it but it was frustrating for me at times. Some people are very good at writing thesis statements and not good with citing a quote. One thing I was good at in high school was where to put in a quote and how to do it thoroughly . The article we had to read talked a lot about ways people use there quotes and ways you should not include a quote. One thing I picked out from the article was when I read “Did you notice how the quotation is dropped in without any kind of warning?” (Stedman, 245)  For example I didn’t just drop that quote in there without any giving information. I told my readers that there are ways you should use a quote and then I added the quote from the text. You always want to warm your readers about what you found from a magazine, article, book, etc and then add the quote in. Give them a heads up of what you found an then put your quote in. It may even be better to conclude your quote as well. You want your audience to always be on topic and never be confused where they are reading or if they read it wrong. This article did come in handy and even helped me with knowing my right from wrong. It can be annoying when you read someone and you don’t understand what you just read I have that happen to me all at the time. Just make sure that your writing is laid out correctly and you are not just throwing random junk into your papers. Make sure that you are telling your reader every little information you know to keep them on track and to explain things that may be confusing at times to get them back on track with what you want to teach them about.