They Say, Chapter Three, Monday-Saturday February 17-22
Look at the subtopics in the chapter on The Art of Quoting (42-51).
The authors look at relevance and framing quotations. Beginning writers tend to quote too much. It is important to "introduce quotations," "explain quotations," "frame quotations," "how to blend the author's words with your own," "how to explain without over analysis," and definite no nos in quotation introductions. This is a really important chapter, as scholars use analysis of other's work often in their research.
Exercise 1 (50)
Instead of finding any piece of writing, use Rubin's THP and analysis a chapter. Look at April, May or June for this exercise.
If your first or last name is:
A-J --April
K-P -- May
Q-Z -- June
Exercise 2 (51)
The authors look at relevance and framing quotations. Beginning writers tend to quote too much. It is important to "introduce quotations," "explain quotations," "frame quotations," "how to blend the author's words with your own," "how to explain without over analysis," and definite no nos in quotation introductions. This is a really important chapter, as scholars use analysis of other's work often in their research.
Exercise 1 (50)
Instead of finding any piece of writing, use Rubin's THP and analysis a chapter. Look at April, May or June for this exercise.
If your first or last name is:
A-J --April
K-P -- May
Q-Z -- June
Exercise 2 (51)
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Yessica Beltran
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A
18 February 2014
“They Say” Chapter 3 Exercises
1. In the May chapter of “The Happiness Project”, Rubin includes a direct quote from Jean Stafford. She uses the word “scoffed” to describe the tone Stafford was using. Rubin introduced the quotation by explaining that Stafford is a writer. After the quotation ends, Rubin shares why she disagrees. Rubin uses study results to back up her claim that happy people do need to have fun. I think Rubin did a good job of introducing the quote and explaining her views in regards to it. I wouldn’t change anything.
2. When I was in eleventh grade I had to write an essay about whether or not it was appropriate for high school students to read “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” Due to its extensive use of the “N-word”, this issue has reamined open for years. In our essay we had to quote others’s opinions on the subject and then state what we thought. My teacher gave out many essays in which people express their thoughts on this topic and after reading them we had to select quotes that would support our argument. I began by gathering quotes that both supported and contradicted my views. I introduced these quotes by stating the name of the author and the article or essay I got it from. I explained how this related to my topic, but I don’t think I went into deatil when explainig what the quote meant in my own words.
Dorothy Middleton
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1 a Saturday
17 February 2014
They Say / I Say
1 (50)
In The Happiness Project, May chapter, Rubin uses a quote by photographer Edward Weston
“a holiday of work, but work which was play”. Before introducing the quote, Rubin explains that she wanted to use her leisure time more effectively to cultivate her creativity. She saw playing as not just merely idle time. She wanted it to be something that would help products new and different activities that would flow over into her work. She followed up by supporting Weston’s quote by saying that having fun was something that she felt came naturally, and she didn’t know that it was something that needs to be shaped in order to get the most out of it. Finding fun in your work was something she felt was not easy.
2(51)
I came from a technical background. Most people tend to think that you are writing these long essays about who did what in your field. Not so, I read a lot of technical manuals, but most of my writing was done on form letters and documentation that was pre-formatted. Those pre-formatted papers were developed as a safeguard; that would insure that ideas and information were clear to the reader. I know now that this has impacted me in a negative way.
The use of quotes in a paper that I had written for a communications class was a great help. I use those quotes to support my findings and to show that my views were also in line with others who were authorities in that field. The use of block quotes helped me to educate my reader on some of the facts. It also allows me to keep their focus around points or ideas that were important in my paper. By using quotes from more than one source, I was able to strengthen my paper so that the person reading it would know that I put some real effort into writing that paper and that my views should be taken seriously.
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Mark Lopez
Professor Sabir
English 1A Saturday
20 February 2014
They Say Exercises 1&2(p.50,51)
Exercise #1
One sub-chapter of the month of May in The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin talks about Rubin starting a collection. As the subchapter begins, Gretchen wonders what item she wants to start collecting. She borders on the answer by meeting in the middle of her lack of passion in collecting things, and not wanting to collect what she deemed 'junk'. She decides to collect Bluebirds simply because it reminds her of happiness. She then tells us why bluebirds remind her of happiness by telling us the connection between her choosing to collect the said bird and a play called The Blue Bird by Maurice Maeterlinck. She reaffirms the connection by integrating a quote from the play. She introduces the quote quite simply as a fairy telling two children "The Blue Bird stands for happiness", and summarizes the play in a sentence. She then states that "this unsubtle moral, of course, was quite fitting for my happiness project."
Exercise #2
As a senior in high school, my English class read a well known play by Sophocles called Oedipus Rex. We were assigned to write an essay on one of the myriad of symbolic themes in the text, and of course, we integrated quotes from the readings. My teacher explained that quote integration was the ideal process to get our opinion/point of view across to the reader by agreeing or disagreeing with what the quote said. The basis of the essay was to show our comprehension of the symbols within the text in our writing; to prove our savvy of the heavy symbolism we searched and explained the quotes. Looking back at the essay--which I received a fair grade on--I realize that I did not introduce the quote with much information than I should have. From reading chapter three of They Say/I say, I did not do an exemplary job of explaining the quote prior to it being integrated into my essay. One triumph in my essay however, was my detailed and well rounded explanation after the quote, which ultimately saved my paper.
Anne Norris
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A Saturday
24 February, 2014
They Say Chapter 3 Exercises
1. In Chapter 5 of The Happiness Project, Rubin quotes “The Bluebird Stands for happiness” and goes on to tell the story, ending it with “It’s the Blue Bird we were looking for! We’ve been miles and miles and miles, and he was here all the time!” Rubin then states the “unsubtle moral, of course, was quite fitting for my happiness project.” I think I would have thrown in a sentence or sub sentence that stated the unsubtle moral. I would not have quoted it any differently.
2. I recently wrote an essay about my mother’s poem. Now after reading this chapter I think I would definitely add some more quotes from the poem and help the readers understand why the poem shaped who I am today.
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