Hello again! Welcome back to my essay in progress. This week, our class has been doing a little bit more "in-depth" work on the essay. Our text book, Curious Researcher, has instructed us to take two separate highlighters to the paper. We had to take one color highlighter and highlight every sentence that reports facts, quotes, sources, or any other information or ideas that were not our own (189). Then with the other highlighter, we needed to mark the parts that showed our personal thoughts, opinions, definitions, or claims (189). After we finished this, we were given a list of the following questions. Enjoy reading as you get a closer look at my essay!
1. Which color dominates? I had an even amount of mark between my thoughts and the thoughts of others.
2. Are you turning over too much of the text to your sources? As of right now, I have not finished the essay, so at this point, I have a fairly small amount of direct quotes.
3. Are you ignoring them and rattling on too much about what you think? Considering that I do not have any direct quotes right now, I would honestly have to say that yes I am rattling on too much for the first page and a half of my writing.
4. Or does your source use seem appropriate to support your purpose? The paraphrases that I have used have been very helpful thus far to back up my personal thoughts about social media.
5. What do you notice about the patterns of the highlighting? I noticed that they were pretty much every other. However, my thoughts did seem to dominate the larger portions of my essay.
6. Are you taking turns paragraph by paragraph with your sources, or is your own analysis and commentary nicely blended within paragraphs, so that the information is always anchored to you own thoughts? I am doing my best to put the quotes and paraphrases where they are most needed and where they best support my thoughts. I do not want to overload any one spot of the essay, but I am trying to incorporate the best thoughts of others where they are most useful.
7. Do you surround quoted passages with your own voice and analysis? Yes, at this point I have surrounded the paraphrases that I have used well with my own thoughts and ideas.
8. Who wins the wrestling match? So far, I am winning the wrestling match against the thoughts of others. We will see what will come in round two!
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