Be able to integrate their ideas with those of others using summary, paraphrase, quotation, analysis, and synthesis of relevant sources.
Learning Outcome 2: Integration of Sources
Learning Outcome 2 states that students should be able to integrate their ideas with those of others using summary, paraphrase, quotation, analysis, and synthesis of relevant sources. In my first draft of the Big Data paper, my main objective was to include some sort of information from at least three sources because that was the requirement; it didn’t necessarily matter how much information I had from each source, I just wanted to make sure that I knew what sources I was using. When I got to my second draft, I focused a lot more on what point I was trying to prove with my chosen sources, as well as how I could use them as evidence in support of my own claims. In this process, I knew, in order to effectively integrate sources into my paper, I would have to frame my quotations in order to explain them and help my readers understand the relevance of each quote. This is something that I struggled to do before learning the ways of English 110. Before taking this class, I would oftentimes end a sentence or a paragraph with a quote without explaining it much. In doing this, the quote was just kind of hanging in the middle of a paragraph and would leave people confused as to why it was even there in the first place. Thankfully, throughout this course, I did a really nice job in remembering to frame quotes as a way to integrate and explain my quotes. My big data paper is one that I think I did the best job in doing this, and example of my paper is: (An article called “Big data analytics in healthcare: promise and potential,” from the journal Health Information Science and Systems, expresses what happens when data is shared. It says, “When big data is synthesized and analyzed… healthcare providers and other stakeholders in the healthcare delivery system can develop more thorough and insightful diagnoses and treatments, resulting, in higher quality care at lower costs and in better outcomes” (Raghupathi 2). This meaning, nurses can get input on their research by comparing it to the research they have already done, and in doing this, potentially find answers they need without doing all of the research and additional work that normally comes with it.) In parentheses is a excerpt from my paper that shows my use of framing. By framing, I introduce the source, then I include what the source is saying, and lastly, I end it by explaining what the quote means and how it supports my claim.
