Integrating Voices- “Be able to integrate their ideas with others using summary, paraphrase, quotation, analysis, and synthesis of relevant sources.”(Brod). Integrating Sources into my writing used to be just straight up factual information that I got from a website, and cited it. I didn’t really go into detail as “unpacking” my own ideas as much or even making connections that helped with what I was discussing in whatever paper at the time. I never really included “I think” statements. I think that through this course I have learned to connect my ideas and my theses. I didn’t know how to introduce quotes besides saying “In this quote” and then dropping the quote. Or wrapping up my conclusion. I also think this course is the first where I have used my own ideas and my own experiences as evidence. Before I felt like my voice wasn’t a source, which it is.
Work Sample Essay #1:
This is an example of what I used to put for my writing by using my old strategy of “In this quote” method which really is repetitive. It doesn’t help make a point which you can drive further home in introducing and apply a source to your work. My own experience after wasn’t as in detail and just is there to support the quote not make the argument deeper. Like with my 3rd essay It is much more integrated into my thesis and my ideas are more expanded.
Work Sample Essay #3:
My quote introduction is more of a smooth pull into the quote rather than just dropping it, and not explaining or helping connect it better in the beginning.
Work Sample Personal Voice:
In this part of my 3rd essay I bring in a lot more than just a few sentences agreeing with the last source I used, I bring in a deeper and relating personal experience to help my essay have some personal meaning to it. And then at the end I bring my thesis ideas and tight it back, it is the part that isn’t highlighted green. I think that throughout this course I have started formalizing and finishing bring in my own voice and the voices of other people that help show my point. I think that this course helped me with the structure and the idea that my own voice has its own merit of a source. which is critical in writing.
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