A friend of mine was introducing me to a group of friends at a party, and in a flash they were distracted by another person and then the conversation was all about the man they saw last night at the club, and I am left standing there waiting for my friend to come back with the introduction. If you ever known someone with ADD or ADHD you will understand how fast they can veer way off track from subject-to-subject, and in the article "Annoying Ways People Use Sources" the writer explaining how fast we can get off track when the conversation is flowing, and then there is a cite/quote comes out-of left field and the reader is left with "What are they trying to say," Which has happened in many of my own papers.
Not explaining the quote before you add it to the paper can feel disjointed. Knowing your cite or reference should always flow within the conversation of the paper. Dropping in a cite helps the reader identify with the topic, but without a tag line after about why you added the cite is confusing. Keeping up with the flow of the paper along with cites/quotes must be on point and not getting caught up with the inside story without telling the readers where the information came from. Give credit were credit is due without getting to much into the ADD brain, and if you do get lost and forget what was my main point of my paper you might get frustrated and the paper will be disjointed.
My new favorite way of writing will be formulating a flow chart or outline before I write to keep my Brain from running a muck..
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