Classmate Discussion Response #1 (Expectations in Context)

The article “Young Writer With a Following Admits Fabricating Dylan Quotes in Book” describes the situation of Jonah Lehrer, a writer who violated expectations regarding the integrity of his work. (The reading is in the attachments)

Respond to at least one of your classmates. Are there areas in which your understanding differs from theirs? What can you add to their observations?

Classmate Trent

As I understand them, the expectations for use of sources in a college research paper are a few things. They are to prevent plagarism, ensure that your ideas are differed from the sources you use, and to support your standpoint in whatever you are writing about. These expectations are similar to the expectations in many other types of writings because they keep the same idea in mind, not to use other writers work under your name. It is important not to plagarise in your writing so as to give proper credit to other writers, whos work you use in your papers.

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Classmate Discussion Response #2 (Using Pronouns Effectively)

In response to one of your peers:

1. Identify any additional pronoun problems you observed in the paragraph.
2. Provide suggestions to improve the use of pronouns in the paragraph.

Trent’s Paragraph below:

The United States faces potential conflict due to the rapid withdrawal from the War on Terror. President Biden saw the need to end America’s involvement in foreign wars that do not directly affect the United States, and pulled out all American troops from Aghanistan in a little less than a year. This has the potential to empower terrorist groups such as ISIS or Al Qaeda and increases the possibility for them to try and attack America or its allies again. Throughout the past 20 years, the United States has maintained a strong presence in Afghanistan and had been able to keep terrorist groups such as ISIS and Al Qaeda under control. Now that the United states has withdrew and essentially surrendered to Al Qaeda, this could lead to a hostile take over of the nation by the terrorist groups once again. Overall, this puts countries like israel and other nearby allies at risk of future terrorism attacks. while under the control of the United States, the taliban had less access to many things like assets and supplies, this in turned weakened their progression. Now with the U.S. gone, they have all the freedom to gain strength and grow out of control.

Now with the U.S. gone, they have all the freedom to gain strength and grow out of control.

In this sentence the pronoun “they” is used. I think I could Improve it by keeping the antecedent in the same sentence. By itself, the sentence doesn’t really make sense so this is an example of unclear pronoun reference.