Author: Anastacio

In “Annotating Ways People Use Sources” by Kyle D. Stedman, the author discusses the multiple ways that writers present their sources and how/why they annoy him. To be more specific, he tells us about his personal experiences with them and explains how the presentation is confusing and can be misinterpreted. After breaking the examples down, he provides a better way to present the sources and their information for the students so overall it becomes a learning experience for them. Stedman closes his essay by advising the reader to include his tips and knowledge in their own writing because it’d be beneficial and is something worth learning.

The source seems to be a high quality source because it’s coming from a peer reviewed textbook and at the end, all his references are cited.

Anastacio

In Helen Keller’s “The Most Important Day,” she describes how, despite basically being born blind and deaf, she overcame these extremely difficult challenges and learned to read, write, and speak. In order to tell us her story, she looks back at her own personal experiences, such as her relationship with her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, who taught her to write and spell simply on the palm of her hand. It was understandably a very difficult experience for her for example, she endured a moment of frustration in which she shattered the doll that she was gifted and although in the moment, she felt no guilt for what she’d done, she eventually came to the realization that everything had a meaning and for the first time, she felt repentance and sorrow. Hellen Keller concludes this chapter by expressing her joy of her new discovery that everything had a name and meaning, she had learned so many new words that led to endless thoughts and she was amazed.