January 13th

 Summary:
In his article "Annoying Ways People Use Sources", Stedman explains the different ways that "annoy him" about how people use quotations and citations when writing. Stedmen uses many different examples of how people incorrectly use quotes, citations, and sources and shows how to fix those mistakes when writing. In his essay he uses many different examples of writing in order to be able to relate to any kind of audience.

Questions:
1. Stedman's advice is more about how to incorporate things into your writing so it flows with the paper and Greene, Kantz, and Porter give advice on concepts and constructs of writing.
 2.In the past when I was taught to use sources I was taught to cite people work the same way that Stedman describes but I was never really taught where I should include them or where I should include quotations.
3.My views about how to use sources before reading this article weren't very different than what Stedman describes but it did help me know where to use certain things in my writing.

My thoughts:
I thought that this was interesting because it showed the wrong way to use citations then the right way with examples. This article will be helpful to me because when I am writing and using citations I can think back to this article and remember the correct way to do these things. My own experiences are similar because in a few of his example I was able to think of a time where I might have done something wrong and also a few times where I had done things the right way. I agree with what Stedman is saying in this article when reading the incorrect example I could see how he would call the mistakes "annoying" and when he showed the correct way to do them it was so much better to read.