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Mariah McCurry - Annoying Ways
After reading “Annoying ways,” I became more aware of how to include sources in my compositions properly. There were some annoyances that I was already aware of and always avoided; however, there were a couple annoyances that I did not realize I was doing myself. Something I do is including a quotation after introducing it. This is something that is important for the readers understanding of why the quote is included. I usually introduce the quote by stating the author and their purpose of the quote. I usually introduce the quote and drop the quote without a follow-up sentence of explanation/analyzing, which is a new concept I learned from the reading. One thing I found interesting was the annoyance of starting a paragraph with a quote. I remember I middle school my teacher would suggest we start off with a quote in order to catch the readers’ attention. I have a hard time integrating quotes into the grammar of my sentences, so that section was extremely helpful.


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  1. UnknownMarch 22, 2018 at 11:18 AM

    I completely agree that a majority of the annoyances Stedman included, most of us had already avoided. However, I disagree with his claim of beginning a paragraph with a quote because I believe in some cases it works well.

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