Blog # 4

  The synthesis essay was really easy because when reading I could already get the concept of how I wanted to combine the articles. I think the TS/CD concept helped a whole lot in this essay as well.  When I used TS/CD I felt my paper made sense and was good on displaying good details. TS/CD is good to use when writing an organized paper that flows well.  The articles I picked for my synthesis paper were the Malcom X, Penod and Mother Tan articles. It was not hard at all to combine these articles because they all focused on the English language.  Since they were on the same subject it was easy to form paragraphs that flowed and talked about each article. These articles focused more on the English language and how it may be difficult for others to speak it as well as learn it.  I learned in this essay that the English language can be difficult if a person is just learning it or if it is a second language.  The essay helped me on combining articles into a summarized paper.
  When citing the paragraphs I had some difficultly.  When I was writing about the Malcom X article I did not know whether to cite his full name nor whether to use a comma before the date.  There was also some confusion as to how many cites  I needed. The paper seemed like there were too many cites. I did not want my paper to have a lot of cites. Is there as such thing as having too many cites in a paper? I would definitely like to know because I was just about citing every 2 to 3 sentence.  Once I was able to correct my cites in my sentences it was easier for me to cite later on in the paper.