In this essay, I used different ways of citing sources than I have in the past. Before getting this assignment, I had never used paraphrasing or summary for citations. My strategy for finding sources was to decide my views on the topic first, then I found my quotes after. When introducing my quotes, I tried using the framing method from They Say, I Say. In other essays, I usually didn’t introduce the author the way that I tried in this paper.

My prewriting was fairly easy because I had a good idea of what I wanted to do before the prewrite. It wasn’t extremely helpful because I already had a good sense of where I was taking my paper.