Be able to integrate their ideas with others using summary, paraphrase, quotation, analysis, and synthesis of relevant sources.

In my essays, I always made sure to make my quotes look nice and proper. As I would try my best to make them look so factual and proper I didn’t pay enough attention to explaining them. Another big problem I had during quote integration was I would just smack down a quote without much personal explanation or context so it wouldn’t have much flow. The way we integrate quotes in class allows me to express how I personally feel about something and how it pushes or pushes against the view of a source that I put in. Integrating quotes the way we do in class has made it easier for me to get out more words and give my essays more flow. 

Screenshot of paragraph 2 on in Essay #2 on Empathy 

Same paragraph with quote and explanation added in 

At first, in this paragraph I was just going to leave this paragraph the way it was, but after learning about quote integration and hearing some feedback from peer review I added in another quote and some more bulk. Before adding anything I had a sentence at the end of the paragraph that kind of left people wondering what I meant. So to further explain and back up my claim I added in an explanation from “The Hawk” and then added in a quote as well. This not only adds more to my essay, but also helps the reader understand my points.