1/28/18 - Annoying Ways People Use Sources

I very much enjoyed reading this article, I think the titles for each annoying mishap were very funny and accurate on a few levels. I would like to summarize "Dating Spider-Man". Although I am not one to abuse this mistake, I do see it often and I love the title as it takes a second to process it. Stedman explains that the mistake is: "starting or ending a paragraph with a quotation [and] a paragraph-beginning or paragraph-closing quotation feels rushed, unexplained, disjointed." I believe this is a common infraction as people believe that it is spontaneous or fun to start with a quotation but in reality it just confuses the reader and the effectiveness. An example would be:

"Zola introduced the unprecedented technique of making upwards of fifteen diapers a day." As such, consider the following.

In this example our quote doesn't really do anything but throw some essentially useless information at the reader.

In my writing I most often make the mistake of "I swear I did some research". In order to fix this mistake I should input indicator words and phrases to lead the reader to what quotes should be attributed to the author and what should be attributed to me.