Annoying Ways People Use Sources
- bpu165
- Jan 28, 2018
- 1 min read
Kyle Stedman lists many annoyances when it comes to sources, and he does so by categorically defining each type of annoyance with a humorous fashion. He pokes fun at these annoyances while also explaining and dissecting each one, and even offers a solution to them. One of these that he talks about in his paper is the "Dating Spider-Man" annoyance, where basically the writer introduces a quotation in either the beginning or end of a paragraph and the problem with this is this is that as a reader reads the writing, the flow of the paper may become affected. An example of this annoyance could be one where someone starts there next paragraph in their paper like
"'Pigs are likely to die from a bacterial disease more than chickens are'. Pigs and Cows usually live in the same backyard area and are best friends." These two statements don't make sense because the quote was plopped in the writing in a way that makes it seem like the writer was not paying attention. Stedman offers a very simple solution by basically saying to "prepare, quote, analyze". A personal annoying habit of mine while working with sources would have to be the Armadillo Roadkill, where I add in quotes without giving it a proper introduction. A way to fix this problem would be by going back and revising my drafts into writing in an introduction to my quotations.
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