“Strengthen your source use practices (including evaluating, integrating, quoting, paraphrasing, summarizing, synthesizing, analyzing, and citing sources)”

From this course, my source use has strengthened, as most of our writing assignments involved doing research, weather it was on a certain person or object to get more information about that certain topic. For instance, when creating my tech description (see figure 1), most of the information was not mine, which I knew I had to paraphrase and summarize most of the information, like when providing the dates of the start of the impact driver by the company DeWalt. Part of this also involves evaluating the authors, seeing if there are reliable and they are since most of the info comes from DeWalt company that created to impact drill, proving mostly history of the tool. However, there wasn’t quotes used in this tech description as it didn’t seem necessary in writing this tech description. I also analyzed the information, such as demonstrating how the impact driver has changed, be providing feature that were prominent in the older versions and explaining the innovations done on the tool. While citing was key to give people credit, since plagiarism is something that shouldn’t be done as it takes away credit from the authors that provided this info. I provided in text citations that make it easy to know how to find in references and give credit to the authors. Also as seen in image 1, the image I used is cited properly with the audition of labeling “figures 1”.

(Figure 1- The history section of tech description)

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