Annoying Ways People use Sources; Reflection

this article was a very easy read, not do to lack of content but because the article manages to establish a dialog with the reader while still being informative. for the sake of those who are reading this i will explain that I am not an English professor so I may be using the word dialog wrong, but for the sake of explanation this is what I mean by a dialog, how a work seams to be talking to you and makes you almost fell like you are having a conversation. Stedman creates this dialog many times but perhaps the most noteworthy is in the first two paragraphs were Stedman compares slow drivers to sloppy writers. Stedman manages to keep this dialog with the reader by using pronouns like, you, to include the reader like he is personally talking to whoever is reading the article. I find this style of writing much more engaging than simply telling a story or lazily listing facts(which is even more boring). When you delve further in the article Stedman begins to almost list the types of errors people make while writing but even though he is giving his information in this very formal and almost boring fashion he manages to keep the reader entertained by continuing his dialog with the reader throughout the whole article. one portion of the article I found mildly annoying was buried within his solutions to the problems he lists, because although after the explanation he provides a way for an author to correct his mistake it seams as though his solutions are all the same but just given in a different format. I don’t know if any other reader saw this or if I am imagining things but it does seam as though his only real given solution is to read over your work out loud or to someone else, which is a great way to improve your writing but it seams as though Stedman lists this multiple times for the sake of making his article seam longer and more complete.

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