Annoying Ways People Use Sources

Dating Spider-Man

In this section of the reading, Kyle Stedman discusses how he doesn't like when people start a paragraph or end a paragraph with a quote. He specifies that it "isn't technically wrong" when people set their paragraphs up like this but he prefers when people don't do it because it makes the paragraph seem as its getting rushed. He also thinks that it makes it feel "disjointed" and "unexplained." The reason he compares this to Spiderman is because Spiderman will shoot away with his web to help someone and go flying away. This represents the rushed and disjointed way the writing comes across because you can't walk in a straight, flowing manner.

An example of this:

...If a person of the LGBT community can pass background checks and their home study then they should be able to adopt just as easily as opposite sex couples. Daniel Nurse is currently an adopted parent with his partner, Casanova, who have had many obstacles to overturn and agrees “A person’s lifestyle shouldn’t matter if they can provide love and compassion” (Beitsch 2015).

"Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep" (Brown 2017). Couples of the LGBT community would make great parents, if not better parents then opposite sex couples. Up until recently, gay rights and being part of the LGBT community wasn’t as accepted as it is today. Approximately 93 percent of kids hear “derogatory words about sexual orientation at least once in a while” (Bullying & Sexual Orientation | Violence Prevention Works 2017).

WHATS WRONG WITH THAT: The quote doesn't fit what was discussed in the prior paragraph and so you don't know what will get discussed in the following paragraph and just gets thrown in as if spider man is "by your side again, and he starts talking about something you don't understand."

Honestly Dating Spider-Man is one way I use sources. Not so much at the end of a paragraph, but I use it at the beginning of the paragraph as an opener sometimes and always get told by the teacher to change it. Stedman suggests to introduce the quote beforehand to cause a better flow.