Week 3 Writing Annoyances

One annoyance I am guilty of is starting or ending paragraphs with quotations. According to Stedman (2011) in Annoying Ways People Use Sources starting or ending a paragraph with quotations technically is not wrong.

But often, a paragraph-beginning or paragraph-closing quotation feels rushed, unexplained, disjointed.

The reasoning for why I may start a paragraph with a quotation is to let the reader know what I will be discussing. I want to start off with a source that is credible for me to build off of. For cases when I choose to end a paragraph with a quote, it is because I want to end the paragraph with a strong source that helps with backing that I have said in the same paragraph.

To better my writing by avoiding this annoyance I can introduce the topic by paraphrasing what I have read in my research. Then I will insert to quote to help back what I am writing about. Instead of having my paragraph end with a quote, I can use the quote earlier in the paragraph and end the paragraph with a conclusion of the quote or something else I found in my research that supports the quote I used.

Example:

"The rebuttal is when the author addresses the opposing views. The author can use a rebuttal to pre-empt counter arguments, making the original argument stronger."(Excelsior. 2019) Robinson does not mention any exceptions to the claim and therefore Robinson did not use the Toulmin Model Argument.

Fixed

In the Toulmin Model Argument the last step is Rebuttal. According to Excelsior (2019) " "The rebuttal is when the author addresses the opposing views. The author can use a rebuttal to pre-empt counter arguments, making the original argument stronger." Robinson does not mention any exceptions to the claim and therefore Robinson did not use the Toulmin Model Argument.

References

https://calarttech.instructure.com/courses/3640/files/1154370/download?wrap=1

Submitted by Vince Gimeno