Essay One: This class has helped me very much in the concept of integrating quotes properly into my writing. In high school, I always just tossed a quote in there. I barley introduced the concept and I for sure did not explain the quote, because I thought the quote explained itself. Therefore leading up to my first essay, I felt as though I was extremely successful with the “Quotation Sandwich” aspect of my essay. I really tried to focus on the intro, quote, and then explanation. See my example from my essay below:

This explicitly means that you and your singular story, could be the very thing you have to offer others who need help. There could be only a few, but there could also be many people that could enter your storytelling door. Hallward found a study that was done by Thomas Houston, from the University of Massachusetts who found that “when you listen to a story told by someone like you, who you can really identify with and who is struggling with an issue, your blood pressure goes down and it lasts for months” (5:00). This proves that social and political change starts with communication. Communication is a fundamental requirement for social cohesion, because it creates trusting relationships.

Here you will see that I introduce the idea of how telling personal stories could help others. Then I support that idea with a quote of study results that proved that idea true. I then emphasize more on how this quote justifies the idea, and introduce how communication is a requirement to fulfill this.

Going forward Id like to focus more on working on more TRIAC structured paragraphs.

Essay Two: On Essay two, I found myself to be continuously successful with the “Quotation Sandwich”, excluding one small area where I made a small error of forgetting to expanding more on why I chose to insert that quote into my work. I feel like on my second essay, my paragraphs are developing even stronger as TRIAC structured paragraphs than they were in the first essay. Going forward to end of the semester, I would really like to focus on the “Quotation Sandwich” by incorporating that with the “And Yet” voice markers to compare or contrast someone else’s ideas/opinions, compared to mine.