Post 3: Outside Sources in Academic Writing
Academic sources are essentially the experts you go to when writing a paper. They're not only reliable, but backed by other experts in the field and it shows you've done your homework and take your research seriously. When using outside sources there are several things you want to look for such as peer review, author credibility, and citations. First step is ensuring your source is checked by other experts and backed up, which falls into the credibility of the author meaning they know what they're writing about. And when writing your paper you can't forget to give them credit and properly citing your sources.
Mike Bunn uses quotes and paraphrases fluently from various sources into his essay "How to Read Like A Writer". For example, Bunn used a quote from Wendy Bishop to explain how her reading process changed when she began to read like a writer.
It wasn’t until I claimed the sentence as my area of desire,
interest, and expertise—until I wanted to be a writer writing
better—that I had to look underneath my initial readings .
. . I started asking, how—how did the writer get me to feel,
how did the writer say something so that it remains in my
memory when many other things too easily fall out, how did
the writer communicate his/her intentions about genre, about
irony? (119–20)
He uses this quote to emphasis how she used her personal reactions to things she read to uncover how the author lead the audience to those reactions. For an example of my own, I used “Acknowledge your feelings. There is no right or wrong way to feel during this transition and there is no right or wrong time for it to appear. And just as you can’t control when it starts, don’t stress about trying to control it when it goes away” (Zielinski, 2023) to express how important it is to take in and own your feelings to help improve your mental health. Because one of the problems college students face is typically dealing with some sort of mental health issue at one point or the other, and Zielinski offers great insight on how to overcome those issues.
Works Cited
Bishop, Wendy. “Reading, Stealing, and Writing Like a Writer.” Elements of
Alternate Style: Essays on Writing and Revision. Ed. Wendy Bishop. Ports-
mouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1997. Print.
Rutgers Health. (2023, September 7). Feeling homesick? How to manage it at college. https://rutgershealth.org/news/feeling-homesick-how-manage-it-college
Thanks for the references and the fine explanation.
ReplyDeleteI like how you explained why using creditable sources is important but also how to search for creditable sources. I agree seeking and utilizing creditable sources shows that the writer is serious enough to do the extra work. Your use of quotes from Mike Bunn's writing and your own really shows me the connections you make in your explanation.
ReplyDeleteWow this is very good, you are making me rethink how I made my post 3. I enjoyed the way you started your topic sentence, and the fact that you added references into the post is steller craftsmanship. It is also a great detail that you talked about how authors using very creditable sources reflects on the type of writer that the person is. Thank you for your great post Mr. Million
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