Blog #3
Last Wednesday's activity of integrating something that I paraphrased from "The Corleone Chronicles" didn't
turn out to be too difficult for me. When the class was first given the assignment I wasn't sure how difficult it would prove, but I quickly found a part of the article that was suggesting an idea that I had already written about in my journal. Even though this particular assignment was easy, I don't think that paraphrasing academic writing will always go so smoothly, but in this particular instance I saw something I could paraphrase that I had already written about. My method for find what I wanted to paraphrase was easy enough. I simply hit ctrl + f and searched the document for the words "originality" and "genre", and with that I quickly found a few things that I could paraphrase. As I have said before, this particular assignment just went so smoothly I don't have anything to really complain about.
I also found that "The Corleone Chronicles" was an interesting and relatively easy read. I think the people that found it confusing just hadn't seen all of the Godfather trilogy and that resulted in their confusion; fortunately that wasn't an issue for me. When comparing the academic style of writing that made up "The Corleone Chronicles" to the more "popular" style of writing that Sara Vowell employs, I find that the academic style is much more straight forward and clearly written. Granted I may be a bit biased, since I really disliked Ms. Vowell's writing. My distaste for Ms. Vowell's writing aside, I generally prefer reading writing in the academic context, and I think I would also enjoy writing in that style once I become a bit better more accustomed/better at it.
