Annoying Ways People Use Sources

Armadillo roadkill is essentially introducing a quote in your paper that appears out of thin air. It catches your reader off guard and forces them to reread the sentence before and see if they missed anything, such as background information about the quote. Once you realize you didn't miss anything of importance you just get annoyed because the author wasted your time. An example would be: Norway is a great country and I would know since I've been there. The fjords are beautiful during the winter even though it's cold. "During the Christmas season they do the Christmas Market which is essentially a market in the center of Oslo." (Collier 319). They also have a Christmas tree set up.

The most annoying thing I do is "Am I in the Right Movie?" There are times where I forget that I'm supposed to also be using proper grammar before I introduce the quote to the reader. I never seem to catch it though when I'm revising; so it just stays within my paper and when I re-read it after the fact I feel pretty stupid. The way I can correct this annoyance is t read it out loud to someone and when I can't quite seem to fluently say it, I can change it. Reading it in your head isn't the best way since, at least for me, my brain doesn't catch little things like that.

Annoyances from greatest to least as a college professor- I Can't Find the Stupid Link, I Swear I did Some Research!, Uncle Barry and his Encyclopedia of Useless Information, Am I in the Right Movie?, Dating Spider-Man, and Armadillo Roadkill

Annoyances from greatest to least as a newspaper editor- Armadillo Roadkill, Am I in the Right movie?, Dating Spider-Man, Uncle Barry and his Encyclopedia of Useless Information, I Can't find the Stupid Link, and I swear I did Some Research!

As a college professor you're more interested in quotes and how they're cited a presented to you in a paper. As a newspaper editor you're more interested as how the quotes of introduced within the newspaper article.