Talk:Week 3 Writing Annoyances/@comment-45084249-20200227032444

I can say that I’m guilty of poorly using quotations when writing papers. According to Stedman (2011) in Annoying Ways People Use Sources its always better to paraphrase or summarize the source material.

So I would say a random example from a fictitious book I would write something like the following.

“As the zombie broke down the door, he grabbed the team leader and bit him in the arm.” (Ballesteros. 2020) The author tell us that by what was already established in the past chapters the team leader was doomed to become a zombie.

But according to Stedman (2011) the correct way would be to summarize so:

In the latest chapter the author wrote that a zombie broke down the door leading into the room the team leader was at. In the process the team leader was bit, dooming him to become a zombie.

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Submitted by Daniel Ball.