For this essay, I had a much better skill at “integrating” my words and the sources I used together. In my essay, my sources were mixed amongst my paragraphs. I tried to use at least two to three quotations to support each statement I made in each paragraph. Amongst the quotations, I tried to go back and forth between authors so their ideas were integrating as well. After each quotation, I would summarize what the quote was talking about and then again in my own words after that. Then I finish wrapping up the quotation by an analysis of my quote.

Overall, I tried synthesize all of the three authors ideas together with quotations and their ideas as well. To show my ability to select, integrate, and explain quotes I’m going to use an example from my final draft. This example is, “Happiness is key and “There is compelling evidence that the devices we’ve placed in young people’s hands are having profound effects on their lives” (Twenge 5). The connection to these devices has become so severe. It’s as if the profound effects on these students lives forces them to rely on these devices. These devices are a sense of comfort to the young people, and they don’t want to be without them. Due to this obsession with smartphones, people are becoming lonely. Loneliness can lead to FOMO or in other words the “fear of missing out,” says Samuel. Kids are so dependent on their social media. This dependency leads to an overwhelming concern of what other people are doing in comparison to themselves. The concern they show leads to jealousy and unhappiness in their own lives. They feel left out. Although, to prevent this unhappiness on a social media app such as Facebook, “click the “hide” button on Facebook updates from friends who are always bragging about their latest cool activities, and use a Twitter client that lets you filter out the enviable stream of tweets from whatever conference you’re not attending” (Samuel 3). In other words, you are capable of hiding the posts that aren’t for you or the posts that you don’t want to see. By doing this you are bettering yourself and your mental health. This way you are making better choices for you and not feeling that sense of loneliness and jealousy. I actually didn’t know you could do this.” Here, you will see how I introduced a quote, then had lots of supporting sentences analyzing the quote, as well as my own opinion, then to integrate another author in I connected both their ideas together, and started another analysis of the quote. Altogether, I integrated my ideas with evidence, and I wouldn’t have gotten better at this if it weren’t for the highlighting exercise we did a few times throughout the semester. This highlighting exercise was to highlight an intro sentence, your quote, the analysis, another quote, that analysis, and more to make sure you had every piece together. Once you integrate all your ideas for a quote, your paper will be a lot stronger.