Review your final draft of the Chosen Work Sample as you prepare to write a section of your statement titled Learning Outcome 2. In that section for the framing statement, explain the ways you used sources as evidence in the paper, including at least one specific example that demonstrates your ability to select, integrate, and explain quotations (about 250-500 words). You will likely draw from the ways your class has discussed the practice of integrating your ideas with others. Revisit your early efforts at integrating your ideas with evidence to help you think (and write) about your development.
It seems weird that only now am I realizing we are writing about the development we have made in reaching these learning objectives. I guess I believed we were supposed to write about our destination rather than the journey. Nevertheless, this paragraph is supposed to be about evidence and how we integrate it, a skill which I believe is easier than many others, especially since it is in our own papers rather than the critique or analysis of others’. In my third essay, I held onto a quote, of which was clear to me from the moment the essay was assigned that I would use at some point, from David Foster Wallace’s Consider the Lobster(a series of words I should probably have copied and pasted due to the sheer number of times I’ve typed them out) that spoke primarily about selfishness in regards to Wallace’s desire and own unethical justification towards eating animals. Quotes like this are not necessarily the evidence of the piece, but they are a support for the argument, summing up ideas in the author’s own words that, in many cases, are the crux of the essay’s purpose. My earlier attempts at integrating quotes were much more obvious, or, rather, they were much shorter; their introductions needed to be far more clear to account for the fact that I did not lead as much into them at the paragraph’s beginning. While I am confident in my ability to successfully introduce and explain quotes, I can always get better at it. There is always room for improvement, even and especially in the stuff you’re good at.
