Exercise 5.1 (p 189-190)

In this assignment in Curious Researcher called 'Wrestling with the Draft', I found that answering the questions of who is dominating my research paper was a very helpful reminder of how my research paper should be written. It helped me shape my quotations and how they should be supported with my own opinions. This assignment really reminded me of who the writer of this paper really is and still to maintain my opinion.

In my draft of my research paper, the color or highlighting that dominates my paper is mainly my written work and my thoughts and ideas and that is the yellow highlighting. I am consistently turning over my thoughts to my sources because all my thoughts formed from my sources. Most of my sources, if not all are all sources with facts of ocean pollution. My thoughts all formed from the information I gathered at the same time still maintaining my own personal opinion. My opinion is also very concise in my thoughts. My source is appropriate to to support the purpose of my paper because my paper is primarily about how ocean pollution can be solved. My sources include many facts of how ocean pollution is formed and also gives information on how it can be stopped. In examining the pattern of my highlighting in my draft, I see a consistent pattern of my work and opinion which follows with a little bit of pink highlighting, which is information from all of my sources. My draft is primarily more yellow highlighting because although there is a consistent pattern, my opinions and input dominates my paper. Something I have learned from writing previous papers in this class when using a quotation, it should always be backed up with an individual thought or idea of your own. The few quotations I include in my paper are always followed by my own opinion. In my paper, the person that wins the "wrestling match" is definitely me, as the writer.