“Quoting someone else’s words gives tremendous amount of credibility to your summary and helps ensure that it is fair and accurate” (page 42). This chapter was very helpful because it highlighted on not only quoting but mentioning the source that it came from as a sense of “proof of evidence” as the author mentions.”look, I’m not just making this up. She makes this claim and here it is in her exact words.” (page 42) I like how the author makes this sound so easy in this sentence. And makes it like its just basic steps to follow before accomplishing “the art of quoting”.”Blending the author’s words with your own..this also works well because it accurately represents Bordo’s words while giving those words the writer’s own spin.” (page 48). During this step, how much of the writers own spin must be included so that it does not seem as if it is plagiarism? Because it is not a credible quote if it includes other words other than what the author said.” To adequately frame a quotation, you need to insert it into what we like to call a “quotation sandwich,” with the statement introducing serving as the top slice of bread and the explanation following it serving at the bottom slice. The introductory or lead-in claims should explain who is speaking and set up what the quotation says; the follow-uo statements should explain why you consider the quotation to be important and what you take it to say.” (page 46) The explanation on how to properly attack quoting is very useful because in high school it was not taught this way. We were basically taught to simply quote “someones word or word.” This explanation will probably stick with me throughout my future writing experiences because the author got straight to the point. Using the sandwich layers is brilliant because it makes perfect sense when using quoting layers.
