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1 8-3 Project Three: Reflection April Haley Southern New Hampshire University ENG-123 English Composition II Kristen Gleason December 18, 2022
2 During the process of writing my persuasive essay, the main feedback I consistently received was about finding scholarly sources and integrating them so that the essay flowed well. I believe this was difficult for me because of the need to use multiple sources. I had just learned to use one source in a persuasive essay in a previous class, and the direction of the essay was already decided by the source. In this essay I was absorbing a lot of information and trying to figure out how to summarize it all to relate it to the point I was trying to prove. I received feedback from a classmate about having too many citations and how it was distracting for him. I find myself having the same issue when trying to read information. I decided that since my paragraphs weren’t flowing well and since there were a lot of sources thrown into them, I would reword the paragraphs then leave in sources that related to what I was trying to state. I summarized some direct quotes to get rid of the distraction of quotation marks and then cited at the end of them. The direction of my essay never changed, and I did not have any feedback on it. I did have the opportunity to explore concerns that I did not know existed within the subject of my essay and found that there are already proposed and already integrated solutions. The data also got pretty specific, for example, that team sports and not individualized sports show improved mental health. I would think any extracurricular activity that increases involvement in a community and socialization would improve mental health, but the data showed the involvement specifically as a team member is what made children and adolescents happier. Source integration didn’t change any directions of my persuasive essay, but as previously stated, it was difficult for me to fit it in. When I read work with sources cited throughout the text, it is very distracting to me. I think I misunderstood some feedback and thought the more sources I had to cite in the essay, the more persuasive it was. Also, most of the sources said a lot
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