Part 2: Learning Outcome 2:
- My use of sources at the beginning of the course was very different compared to now. I used sources just to say I had one rather than to integrate it. Throughout this course I learned how to blend and transition certain sources into my piece to sound smoother. I also learned how to frame my quote. This is when you give an explanation or background of the source before and then give an analysis after on how it connects to you, the piece, and the significance. This helped me greatly because it helped me start writing from a different perspective and understand what the reader wanted to hear. For example, in my literacy narrative piece I added “I felt my experience was similar to the one in “The Editor” by Daniel L. Gross. In the Editor, Robin Woods had been sentenced to 16 years in prison and felt like his only escape was to read a book. He didn’t know how to read at first, but taught himself and used the books to escape the world of prison. To Robin, the books were his only option. I felt like my experience had been similar, because going into middle school, with a whole new collection of books that I was unfamiliar with, I had to teach myself to find the books that interested me and my mind rather than my eyes”. This piece of my paragraph added a credible source, but it also added explanation of the story I shared in the beginning. I did this to share it with the reader and it made me understand that just because i write about it, doesn’t mean everybody knows what I am talking about or know if the story or source is credible, so I had to use explanation. Also, I added analysis after the paraphrase to show how the source was significant to my paper and add further text to text connections that would help the reader understand more.
