Learning Outcome #2: Integrating Sources

From the beginning of the year the sources and the way of which I integrated them into my writing has changed and overall improved. In high school adding a quote or source was simply adding the source in, usually as its own sentence, and then citing the author. And while this is effective at implementing a source it doesn’t make the text flow or make introducing a key point effective. Looking at pieces of my writing from the beginning of the year like my “The Hawk” reading responses, my integrated quotes are just placed in and not really weaved in. This makes the writing not flow as good as it could and make the quote seem like they were just placed in at times.

Compared to later writing further in the year I tried to weave my sources into my writing to have the structure flow better. For example in my empathy essay I not only integrated my quotes to make them sound more natural, but I also compared two sources multiple times throughout one paragraph. This has made my writing sound more natural and eliminated sentences that made it sound more confusing or less smooth.