Summary
Author Kyle D. Stedman begins talking about slowly drivers and connecting with readers how he hates slow drivers to draw them in. The article talks about the annoyance of people quotation in pieces. Mentioning things that writers do that annoy him when it comes to quotes. He also gives a “fix” to the previous writer passage. He relates driving under the speed limit to writing that you either don’t know how use quote or do and don’t care. Kyle gives advice on how to use them correctly. Giving out the hint that readers don’t like knowing they are about to get hit with a quote or reading about multiple quotes to make it look like you know what your talking about but being confused by the multiple ideas. He suggests that leading your way up to a quote so readers can know the idea your building, and if it agrees or disagree with your view.
Key terms and main idea
A citation that only list a title
A citation that only list a page number
A quotation without a citation at all
Using turn signals- letting your readers know where you are heading.
I Swear I Did Some Research~Blends words and phrases from sources with ones that they came up with themselves.
fix~writing sentences before the citation with things that tell the reader what information came from where.
Can’t Find the Stupid Link~The first letter of the ( )doesn’t match with the first letter of the works cited at the end.
fix~the first word in the works cited entry matches the word you used in the in-text citation.
Armadillo Roadkill~Putting a quote in without introducing it first.
Fix~a bridge or in other words a way to know where the quote came from
Dating Spider-Man~Starting or ending a paragraph with a quotation.
fix~guiding your reader to the quote and after your telling them a way to interpret the quote.
Uncle Barry and His Encyclopedia of Useless Information~ Using too many quotes without explaining them.
fix~go back to each quotation and say why it’s there.
Am I in the Right Movie?~ Putting a quote in a sentence without using proper grammar.
fix~read your essay out loud and if it’s hard to read a quotation you should adjust it
Commentary
One piece I really looked into was the dating the Spider-Man one. I’ve always had a open mind that if you start with a quote or end with one as long as it’s a very good quote and related to your topic then no harm no foul. But as I read the the fix part from Kyle the author it gave me another side for me to like look at it. Like it would be better if the writing have background information about the quote so readers can relate or even know where you’re coming from instead of readers being clueless. I really didn’t see how it annoying it was but I did find it helpful that his way of looking at it was very useful.
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