blog 10

Chapter 17 is a chapter about how to incorporate relevant information in papers to help you back up whatever you are arguing. You can use quotes in many different ways in my writing project I am talking about coffee shops at or around the ASU campus. So using quotes to contrast ideas or provide information that can be used as evidence to prove or back up your information, so your paper isn’t just a personal opinion paper but a valid essay with proof for each criteria of a coffee shop that I am discussing.  Also in the chapter that would be helpful tool to incorporate in my essay would be to “use amplification to expand the scope of a point” (Palmquist, 577). This will only work though if I use quotes only in places where it would make the biggest impact in my writing because “quotations dropped into a paragraph without an introduction-are confusing. Worse, paraphrases and summaries inserted without context can easily be mistaken for plagiarism” (Palmquist, 580). Chapter 18 discusses about how to make your paper more visually appealing to the readers using things like line spacing with good titles in large font, how to lay a page out, like where writing should be placed and where illustrations should be put to make the page be more interesting instead of sloppy. This relates to my essay because we are going use Illustrations to provide a visual of each coffee shop I will be talking about because if I am suppose to be rating coffee shops based on my criteria, isn’t as good as if I have a picture of the coffee shop to give a visual to the place and to what I am trying to talk about. Just as long as the illustrations used address what you are trying to talk about because if you’re talking about a place being dirty then a photo of the dirty floors or something for example would be a great illustration because it is like a quote but for the eyes to see. Also other things I can quote from are from articles like the ones in newspapers because they are usually full of solid information, and certain web sites contain a lot of information just knowing what is a good reference versus what would be consider as a poor reference or website to site your quote from. All of this inforamtion might seem obvious to some people but when writing an essay knowing and providing solid points of reference and making you're paper creative and interesting to read can make a big difference in how people might respond to what you are trying to say.