Learning Outcome II
Below are some highlighted examples of how I integrated other scholars’ ideas into my writing using my “Significant Writing Project” and also how I then combined those with my ideas. The “They Say” is highlighted in yellow and the “I Say” is highlighted in green:
Framing Statement: I believe that my ability of being able to integrate quotes into my academic writing is a strong suit of mine. As one can observe from my evidence above, I use a multitude of integrating methods including embedding quotes like the first quote of this essay as well as simple explanation quotes, used in the beginning of the fourth paragraph. I try my best to keep my summary as limited as possible and only include the information that is absolutely necessary in order to bring the reader into the conversation, and I believe that I succeeded in that endeavor as I received no comments on my quote length. I also did not utilize quotes simply to use them, and they all serve a purpose mostly for confirming and adding throughout my Significant Writing Project. I will admit that my writing did not challenge the authors very much, and that is something to work in in future essays. I handled text-to-text connections well in my opinion, showcased in the second to last paragraph where I went back and forth between Christina Haas and Nair and Nair’s work, pointing out the similarities and relationships. Overall, I feel that when it comes to integrating ideas I came into this yearly pretty well prepared and showed my ability to balance quotes with analysis, use quotes correctly and uniquely, as well as use quotes for a purpose, as I got several compliments on that portion of my writing by both peers and my teacher. Further growth is of course possible, as it always is, but I do believe that this is a tool I have nearly mastered, and my efforts could be better spent in other areas.
