All throughout the year our essays were derived from different articles and readings. Meaning we would have to use sources, which made us have to know how to introduce and use them in our writing. I feel as though I had no trouble using any of the sources as it came easy to me, it wasn’t something that was new when it came to writing essays. In the work I will be presenting, it will show how I introduce the sources and give credit to the writers of the sources. Writing an essay about articles is hard if one does not use the sources to give your ideas support or even to challenge your writing by using a naysayer from within one of the sources. When we were given the essay prompts it would not only specify using only one source but instead it would be two or three sources. Which helped even more because we were able to compare and contrast the different sources and find similarities that helped us with our writing. They allowed us to further ideas because we were also given ways to agree with and challenge our initial thoughts, without multiple sources our essays would have turned out much differently. Knowing how to introduce the texts only helped us explain their quotations. We would make the quote fit into that given paragraph and then explain that quote in our very own words.

My Introductions to the Sources: Carol Dweck, a professor at Stanford University, gave a TED Talk about two different types of mindsets that college students have in today’s universities.

Another perspective that has an opposing view than the TED Talk is offered by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt in “The Coddling of The American Mind”, which spoke about critical thinking and how emotional reasoning and trigger warnings can prevent students from using critical thinking.

My Explanations of the Quotes: “I feel it, therefore it must be true” (Lukianoff and Haidt). Lukianoff and Haidt were essentially stating that it is not always good to follow your emotions because most people will listen to their emotions without looking at the facts and the logical sense of topics.

 This is mainly because these types of students have the ability to “engage deeply. Their brain is on fire with yet” (Dweck). Meaning, they will see the trigger warning and engage it rather than letting it control them. They will not allow the trigger warning to get in the way of their process of learning.