Chapter 7 was really helpful with paraphrasing and citations. Paraphrasing is completely different from summarizing and it is important to properly cite all your sources so that you do not plagiarize. This chapter explains how to cite each source throughout your essay and teaches you how to pull out only major points while paraphrasing. All sources are cited differently and this chapter helps you to figure out how to do in text citations for articles, books, films, and academic journals. Even in an annotated bibliography you must include your reference page. Chapter 7 touches on MLA format, what is required of this format for your essay and works cited, and how to appropriately format your research papers.
Throughout chapter 1 of “The Bedford Book of Genres,” I learned that there are a variety of ways to improve one’s writing. Several writers tend to get carried away while writing that they forget who their audience is and what message they are trying to deliver. This is when one must ask themselves what their purpose of writing is, do they want to present a narrative/ tell a story, inform, or persuade. After figuring out ones purpose they must choose a genre to be able to shorten their idea and be concise. In order for this to occur one must know the basic qualities and agreed-upon rules about the genre they are composing. Once one makes those decisions they move on to the rhetorical situation which mainly explains the idea. This allows the writer to provide support on their purpose such as saying what is great about it or provide statistics, which will automatically make their writing more interesting for the audience to read, as well as, get t...
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