15.3: Discussion

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1. Because so many of these guidelines depend on the writer’s
purpose, publication space, and audience, it can be difficult
to know when to follow them strictly and when to bend them.
What are some specific writing situations where a writer is justified
to bend the standards of how to incorporate sources?

2. Choose one of the annoyances. Then, look through a number
of different pieces of writing from different genres and collect
two examples of writers who followed your chosen guideline
perfectly and two who didn’t. For each source you found, jot a
sentence or two describing the context of that source and why
you think its writer did or did not follow the guideline.

3. Rank the annoyances in order of most annoying to least annoying,
pretending that you are a college professor. Now, rank
them from the point of view of a newspaper editor, a popular
blogger, and another college student. What changes did you
make in your rankings?