May 9

The reading Annoying ways people use sources objective is to show that people use sources the wrong way. To be honest the only issue that I remember that I was told not to do was, “armadillo roadkill. My teachers always so do not introduce a sources or quote without giving some background feedback or your interpretation on how it relates to what you are writing about. My teachers express this clearly and that they would dock points because they feel when you do this you are just trying to fill the paper with fluff. I was always told when I write each paragraph should explain why it is relevant on its own.

I believe this reading was very insightful. I learned many things about quoting that would have never been expressed in my classes. I feel as though students do something wrong for  so long that wrong becomes the norm and then teachers make comments on your paper or maybe dock a few points but do not go over the in corrections because of the sake of time.  

Stedman says, “…slow driving is like sloppy writing” and gives two general reasons that people break conventions, both in driving and in writing, those being that they do not know the conventions or that they know them but do not care (242). I believe this to be true because there is nothing like someone driving 60 in the fast lane. Some people just do not know the rules, as for me going into a big city it seems that all of their lanes are fast lanes and in that case I am ignorant to their driving rules. As with writing, I have been trained to use sources because they provide proof but I have not been provided with all the rules and guidelines to make my sources stronger and use them correctly.

Honestly, I believe time is the real reason why quotes are not used properly. Because of time, you are not taught correctly how to use them and when you are taught correctly incorporating the perfect quote takes time that I believe us as students do not want to take. In addition, along with that we see the logic for quotes in the class and for the specific writing, but when we have our careers what are the odds that we will quote things. Zero to none, so it is not something that we care to spend a tremendous time on.