Paper #1-
From writing this essay, I have learned a lot about how to integrate my ideas with quotes from others. Whenever I introduced a new idea or argument, I liked to back it up with a quote from another piece of work that related to my idea. This is a new skill for me, so I definitely have some room to grow. However, I have learned how to use quotes to strengthen my analysis and how to interpret the words of others in order to fully understand them, and recite the idea in my own words. My goal for this learning outcome to is become better at finding the best quotes possible to support my argument, and also incorporating more quotes and references into my writing.
Paper #2-
In this paper, I tried to incorporate more quotes and ideas from other texts into my paper than I did in my first essay. I tried to make sure that with each argument I made, I had a quote from another text or article to back it up. After learning “Barclays Formula”, it became much easier for me to know how to smoothly integrate other peoples words into my own. I have become a lot better at choosing quotes that directly help support my argument, but there is still always room for improvement.
Paper #3-
In this essay, I tried to improve the balance between using quotations from other pieces of writing and my own ideas and analysis to better than it has in my last two essays. I usually had too much of my own thoughts and not enough of others in order to support my ideas, so I tried harder in this essay to incorporate more ideas from other people along with my own. I have improved a lot when it comes to integrating quotes from other pieces of writing into my own, and I feel as if it has made my writing stronger as a whole.
Example of me integrating quotations into my own writing:
In “The Limits of Friendship”, Konnikova states, “one of the things that keeps face-to-face friendships so strong is the nature of shared experience..”(237) People are more worried about how other people think of them, than actually enjoying the moment and experience that they’re in. This idea of the “nature of the shared experience” has changed, and people no longer experience things together, but rather just watch others do it on the internet.
