Learning Outcome #2: Students will be able to integrate their ideas with others using summary, paraphrase, quotation, analysis, and synthesis of relevant sources.

Learning Outcome #5: Document their work using appropriate conventions (MLA format).

Learning Outcome #6: Control sentence-level errors (grammar, punctuation, spelling)

Colette Murphy

Professor Jacobs

ENG 110

12/8/2022

Throughout my time in my English 110 class with Professor Jacobs I have improved significantly in my writing techniques, most acknowledgeable being my use of sources. This assignment prompt asks students to identify how our use of sources have improved our time taking English 110. For me it was when I wrote our three major papers due throughout the first semester. I gained and integrated sources using transition words, softly lulling them into my writing and tying my pieces together. In my first paper, my “Coddling of the American Mind Response Essay” which I wrote in September, my whole paper was based off of a source. This gave me a great introduction of how to integrate them. I wrote of how “They discuss how this movement of trigger warnings is “driven largely by students” since Gen Z and millennial parents are known for “bulldozing” over the hardships their children may or may not experience.” Taking both of these quotes directly from the book “The Coddling of the American Mind” by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt. I continued to use direct quotes when I integrated their quote “pull in the reins and work harder to keep their children safe.” or when I wrote “The two men discuss how trigger warnings challenge everything that their generation- and past ones -have been through, from “literary” and “philosophical” points of view to the general “historical canon.”” I feel that I did a great job of integrating these quotes in my first paper, but that’s because it was a response essay, so I had to. I improved even more in paper two which I wrote about my experiences as a Type One Diabetic and how far that technology has come. “One of the challenges – and frustrations”…”is multiple finger sticks each day to test blood sugar levels.” I quoted, smoothly integrating it into my work using transition words. “Diabetes Research News comments in their April 2020 article “ADVANCEMENTS IN TYPE 1 DIABETES MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY”.” I did this again later in the essay, “According to the article “New Diabetes Technology: What to Expect in 2022” written by Mike Hoskins in January 2022, “Tandem Diabetes Care will likely be the first to cross the finish line in getting FDA clearance on a smartphone app that can be used to control an insulin delivery device.”” In the end, these essays helped me source my materials and give credit to the people that wrote them to further my own work.