"Annoying Ways that People Use Sources"

    This article I found to be more interesting than most with that they talk about how not all readers and writers are going to see things from eye-to-eye. It goes on and on about writers who may sometimes fail to follow conventions which would then make their readers upset. For me, however, I don't mind. I like writers that don't follow the rules and seem to have or make up their own style. That's the best part about writing, there shouldn't be too many rules. If every writer is following the same rules and the same conventions than that's just boring. However, sourcing maybe a different circumstance. There are strict rules that I have always been taught and were always enforced throughout all of my years with education. I never liked writing because if you make one small error with sourcing you were to get so many point docked off. Sourcing is supposed to be met by certain guidelines, although like I was saying before, that shouldn't always necessarily be the case. My only exception would be that the sourcing couldn't be just at random. It should still be clear, neat, and to be easily understood by the reader in where it came from. I really appreciate it when they state that, ".. in the majority of situations, readers appreciate being guided to and led away from a quotation by the writer doing the quoting/ Readers get a sense of please from the safe flow of hearing how to read and upcoming quotation, reading it, and then being told one way to interpret it. Prepare, quote, analyze" (pg. 247). That statement right there explains it all. It is true, when writers follow the guidelines its almost like they provide a safe flow for the reader. I too can appreciate that. However, all in all, I will always stand by my stance that writing should not be so much full of rules and conventions, but more as an opportunity to embrace uniqueness.