Annoying Ways People Use Sources

In the text Annoying Ways People Use Sources, author Kyle Stedman talks about an annoyance he calls, "dating Spider-Man". In this example Stedman explains the effects of stating an idea or topic in a text then never fully informing the reader before jumping to a whole new topic. He compares this to dating spider-man and describes having a conversation with spider-man and then mid conversation, spider-man takes of before telling the story. Only later to come back and begin another conversation, leaving you lost with no sound path to follow. An example of this annoyance is: Living in poverty can effect a child's life in more ways than one. Having to go to school within the project communities of America has also struck this nations youth.

There are continuous cliff hangers and the topics are jumping from one to the next too quickly. In my own writing I think I use Uncle Barry often. I state facts and claims but move on before fully explaining them to the reader. In order to fix this I just have to be more aware of my writing and like Stedman suggests, read the text aloud, it'll help put yourself in the readers shoes.

I ranked the annoyances from the point of view of a college professor in the following order:

Dating Spider-Man, Uncle Barry, Encyclopedia of Useless Information, Am I in the Right Movie?, I Can't Find the Stupid Link, I swear I did Some Research, and armadillo roadkill.

My ranking from the point of view of a student is very slimier in my opinion and only had slight changes. The last three (I Can't Find the Stupid Link, I swear I did Some Research, and armadillo roadkill) became the first three on the scale of importance. Other than that the lists matched up.