This past week I have been in the process of drafting my essay. For today's class, I had to bring a rough draft of my essay. In class we had to go through our paper and highlight every sentence that reported facts and quotes from sources that belong to someone else. Then, we had to go through with a different color highlighter and highlight all of the our own personal ideas, interpretation, claims, analysis, commentary, definition, or synthesis. So, today I got to see how much of my paper was other people's ideas and how much was my own insight.
For this blog post I am going to answer some questions that I was asked about my essay.
1. Which color dominates?
My essay consists mostly of my own ideas. When I go to revise my essay, I am planning on adding more of other people's ideas.
2. Are you turning over too much of the text to your sources?
No, as I answered in the previous question I do not have too much of other people's ideas in my paper. I need to go through and make my paper seem more like a conversion with me responding to the other's claims.
3. Are you ignoring them and rattling on too much about what you think?
Yes, I do think I have too much of my own ideas running through my paper. I need to go through and only put in the most important things so it does not seem like I am rabbling on and on.
4. Or does your source use seem appropriate to support you purpose?
As I have already stated, I need to incorporate more of other's claims into my paper. The sources I do have in my paper, however, are appropriate.
5. What do you notice about the color pattern?
There are places in my paper where there are large chunks of my own ideas. I need to find a way to put in some sources in those paragraphs to break up what I think. I need to show what other people claim and argue, too.
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 your own thoughts?
Neither of these circumstances happen all throughout my paper. There are some paragraphs that incorporate both my ideas and one of my sources, but it definitely does not happen consistently throughout my paper. So, I have to fix this problem when I go back through to do my revisions.
7. Do you surround quoted passages with your own voice and analysis?
Yes, I do surround the quotes I used in my essay with my own voice or analysis. I introduce the quote, put in the quote, and then break it down and explain it.
8. Who wins the wrestling match?
I won throughout my rough draft, but I think I need to incorporate more of my sources into my paper.
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