Peer Review Reflection

When writing a paper that involves research you can under and over cite. It is an annoyance when you are reading a paper and someone improperly drops a quote on you, totally wrecking your train of thought. Kyle D. Stedman states that one of the fundamental ideas of rhetoric is that whomever is using it should shape what they do based on what they want it to inspire, where they're publishing it , and what they know about their audience. When integrating sources you should slowly ease your audience into it, maybe by use of an introduction. Doing this shows your audience there is a quote coming, where it is coming from, and how to interpret it. Something people should not do it to start or end a paragraph with a quote, doing

In Colleen’s essay “Too Much Pressure” she uses evidence from different sources such as, a newspaper written by Robin Stansbury, and an article written by a policy analysis named Robert L. Maginnis. In order for a persuasive essay to be effective there has to be evidence to support the claims. By using articles from other authors that are knowledgeable in that topic make her essay more effective and it displays more facts making it harder to argue against

I will then incorporate a few more factual based articles to try and provide all the necessary details, such as “Death Penalty Pro Con” and a few more biased articles then to get opinions going. I feel that all my sources work well together as even when the articles have different viewpoints, they do not contradict one another much. Basically, they highlight the importance of their own arguments and do not really go after the other side. Overall, I feel that I have the sources necessary to write this piece. However, I do feel that having a few more scholarly articles will only help my

As an American we have the right to exercise freedom of speech and I believe that freedom of speech is one of the most valuable rights we have, and I have not been able to exercise this right for the last 18 years of my life. I am most fortunate to be able to exercise this right in my English 1102 class during peer reviews. In my opinion, people learn best by teaching than they do by listening to the teacher and I believe peer reviews work the same way. When I was engaged in peer views, I learned more from my own writing than I ever have been reading my own reviews. I feel this is true because we are engaging in reading over another classmate’s paper, and offering our advice that could potentially improve their essays. For our first peer review our teacher gave us a list of guidelines to go by in order to do the most efficient job in peer review. It

By critically thinking and researching during the course work of writing my papers, I found that putting direct quotations of my sources into my paper was the method I chose over others. For example, the quote used in my Peer Review Essay #1 “Shazam works because every song generates something like a “fingerprint”… Shazam stores that fingerprint for tens of millions of songs, and then matches (or tries to) with what’s coming out of the speaker” (Garling). I found that by using direct quotes like this one into my papers instead of paraphrasing them, made my essay stronger. I personally feel that by using a direct quote of a person who is more creditable than me creates a sense of assurance for the reader, knowing that it is a creditable source. I was able to use the quote directly and weave the information into my essay by supporting the direct quote given with my own thoughts. This allowed me to better voice my opinion on the topic I was writing about.

While doing this, I found out that some of the sources were not what I thought they were going to be. For example, one of the sources for my public argument seemed like it was against abortion, but once I got to the end, I found out that the author was actually for abortion. I had this problem while writing both of my essays, so I had to go back to the databases to find new sources. I think the most important change I made during the writing process was changing a few of my sources to ones that would better validate the arguments in each annotated bibliography. After searching within the database for a while, I was able to find other articles that gave me a wider range of information and statistics to choose from. If I would have not taken the time to go back and find sources that would better fit my argument, I would have needed to do it later in the writing process of each essay. Because of this, I went back for both of my annotated bibliographies and replaced some of the sources that I thought were good at first, but after reading more into them I found that they did not provide me with the evidence I

This insight will help my writing because I see how you are supposed to tie in your sources to your main argument to help further the strength and accuracy of your paper. For my future classes in the history department I plan to use the examples from Kerber article on how to tie in credible sources to what you're trying to get a crossed in your paper. Also each paragraph has a major theme that leads to the next paragraph so that the writer doesn't get confused on what the major theme is of the

Using couple quotes from our reading added about one paragraph to our essay, but all the quotes were stuck in one paragraph instead of having them all scattered throughout our writing. That was not the only problem with the quotes, we didn’t explain the quotes after we wrote them. One good quote we used talks

Therefore, I made sure to pay more attention to my referencing and to be more elaborative when explaining key concepts by incorporating both areas into my draft essay so they were available for the final.

My academic writing has greatly improved. I now make an active effort to use a thesaurus to vary my language. I also incorporate more transitional phrases to create a better flow in my essays. I organize my paragraphs to make sure the information and supporting evidences flows well. Even though I understood my claims and thesis needed to be supported by credible sources I analyze who and where the source was published. Specifically, the class discussion in the response to videos we watched two videos about high fructose corn syrup. I stated,” The first video, High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) – ‘Party’ TV original commercial, is an advertisement made by The Corn Refiners Association”. I acknowledged that the first video was made by an association that could have biased opinions about high fructose corn syrup. By acknowledging where the source came from I demonstrate that if this video was used for evidence for safe fructose consumption it would not be a credible source because of its ties to the corn association.

Sometimes we are faced with the situation of not being able to use every source that we encounter for a variety of reasons. When reading the topic of this week's blog, I took a step back to reflect on my past works. My first essay I felt was thoroughly complete and only lacked some needed editing, besides that it was complete. In my last essay for the class E110 my topic was based on the dumb jock stereotype. It wasn’t very difficult to find sources on my topic. The research paper opened a whole new door for me, all the information that I have found from my sources truly enlightened me even more on my topic. As I researched this topic I realized that I wandered onto different paths such as racism or the disadvantages that athletes face. Eeven

I learned from that first writing by knowing to reference credible historical events, but i also learned from the second writing by realized that using only personal anecdotes does not create more credibility and ethos to a argumentative writing. When credibility is applied to an argumentative essay , the argument of the writer becomes stronger to the strength of the ethos. From learning about different types of argumentative writing in class, i was able to comprehend and apply more credible sources to my writings to create a stronger argument.

By putting the information from your research into your own words, you can show that you have a deeper knowledge of the material. Furthermore, papers overloaded with quotations may distract your instructor from your own ideas and writing. Use a quotation from a source only when there is absolutely no better way to present the information. A well-written paper balances quotations and paraphrases with your own interpretation of the research.

Another method, evaluation of sources, further progress my critical thinking skills and helped me develop personal responsibility. When writing essays, quotes are a great strategy to prove a point. However, finding the right quotes and as well as deciding if the source of the quote is reliable might be a challenge for some people; this was not the case for me. In one of my essays, called “Shocking Results“, I wrote “Jerry Burger, a psychologist, points out that ‘follow-up questionnaire data [indicated] that the vast majority of

When you put your ideas on paper, your instructors want to distinguish between the building block ideas borrowed from other people and your own newly reasoned perspectives or conclusions. You make these distinctions in a written paper by citing the sources for your building block ideas. Providing appropriate citations will also help readers who are interested in your topic find additional, related material to read—in this way, they will be able to build on the work you have done to find sources.