Quotation Analysis

Genres
This week we will work more closely with genres, including your expertise with genres in your
major. Please visit the following Website http://twp.duke.edu/writing-studio/resources/genres-of-
writing , which lists various genres. Locate the genre that best represents the type of writing you
do in your major. Read the information about the genre closely related to your major. Also read
the information about a genre that relates to a different major. As someone who studies English,
I could, for example, choose a laboratory report as the genre outside my major. In a post of 250 –
words explain how the writing you do in your major compares to the writing done in the
alternative genre you selected. When we finish reading your post, we should have a clear
understanding of the type of writing you do in your major, the genre you use most often, and
how it differs from another genre used in a different major. Please be sure to use a brief
quotation from each genre and also ensure that you discuss all that you quote. In other words, do
not quote several sentences when you only discuss one section of one sentence. You can revisit
how to properly format your quotations by visiting the Purdue Owl
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/ . You will find the MLA and APA guides below the menu
bar at the left of the Purdue Owl homepage. At the top of your work please indicate wither you
are following MLA or APA format. Additionally, please give your work a title.
2c) Quotation analysis:
It is important to use quotations effectively in our writing. For example, you never want to cite
more text that you will analyze, and it is often a good idea to paraphrase text when you are trying
to get across general aspects of a text. For this 2c assignment you will practice an approach to
analyzing quotations. While you may vary the formula, it is a good idea to try to have the
following elements in your paragraph:
1. a topic sentence that tells the main point you'll make in the paragraph (You might think of
the main point as a mini thesis);
2. some background information about the quote so that the reader is not at all confused about
what the quote means;
3. an explanation of the argument you are making about the quote (if you don't include this first,
your readers will need to re-read the quote later once you make your point);
4. the quote, preceded by a signal phrase, with quotation marks and a parenthetical page citation.
You should provide enough of the quote that it makes sense, but don't put in more than you can
discuss. One or two sentences is generally a good quote length;
5. a restatement of the quote in your own words (paraphrase) right after you present it to make
sure readers understood the quote in the same way you did;
6. The final few sentences of your paragraph should explain, being sure to include your own
experience not as evidence but to help explain your argument, your point about the quote in more
detail, and why you draw that conclusion about the quote;
7. Your final sentence should remind readers of your paragraph's main point.

For this assignment, you will integrate a quotation from “7 Reasons Why You Shouldn't Go To
College and 4 Things To Do Instead” by Michael Price
( http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michaelprice/7-reasons-why-you-shouldn_1_b_5501111.html )
as you use the seven step model to compose a paragraph in which you make an argument about
whether or not most people will benefit from a college education. You may read the comments
to his post, but be careful. You do not want your paragraph to be a summary of his post and
someone else’s response. It is your idea I’m are after, which is why I’m also asking you to use
your own experience as part of your explanation in step six. You are not using your own
experience as an example because one person’s experience cannot serve as evidence. You can,
however, use your own experience to explain an aspect of your argument. Please remember that
you can use a quotation from Price’s to make an argument that agrees or disagrees with his
premise. In short, you need not agree with him in order to use a quotation from his blog post.
You only want one quotation in this assignment: the quotation you make in step four. Be sure to
explain and document the quotation appropriately and ensure that your readers will understand
how the quotation supports your own idea. Please number your sentences so that the numbers
correspond with the elements numbered 1-7. Please remember that you are not simply offering a
summary of a point made by the Price; you are using the text to support an argument that you are
making–your main point.
Example: The following example, from a research paper on Satan worship, follows the
above model, Note that, although the main point is repeated several times, the paragraph
does not sound repetitive. This repetition is necessary to make sure the reader understands
the quote and your point about it.
1. Satanism often provides an outlet for the negative emotions experienced by abused or
neglected young people. 2. Timothy Zeddies argues in "Adolescent Satanism" that abused teens
are particularly prone to adopting Satanic philosophies. In his article, Zeddies discusses several
examples of teenage psychiatric patients who choose Satanism as a means to express their
negative feelings. 3. It is important that we place a teen's choosing Satanism within the context
of the teen's life because often time such choices reflect a teen's angst more that a teen's belief in
Satanism. 4. Zeddies writes, "Satanism is both liberating and familiar. It allows them to express
and receive validation for their rage and hatred toward authority figures who have abused,
neglected, betrayed, or abandoned them" (24). 5. Zeddies claims that angry teenagers feel
comforted by the angry and dark spirit of Satanic cults. 6. Understanding that some choices teens
make, which at first might seem to suggest teens are stereotypically evil, are usually choices that
reflect deep feelings of powerlessness and betrayal experienced after years of abuse could give
us have a more sympathetic view of teens who choose Satanism. In my working with
disenfranchised teens at the YMCA, I have found that many or their choices that might mark
them as "evil," are usually their attempts to have some sort of control in their lives. 7. Rather
than viewing Satan-worshiping teens as dangerous others, we could sympathize with the pain
that led them to Satanism.

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Quotation Analysis (in APA Format). College does have any meaningful value as it does not prepare students adequately for the job market. 2. The article, “7 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Go To College and 4 Things to Do Instead,” by M. Price, examines whether college has any meaningful value in terms of preparing graduates for jobs after graduation. 3. College does not teach students enough skills to successfully navigate the needs and pressures of employment. 4. Price (2014) states that employers are “finding it difficult to find talented and qualified applicants that are recent college graduates, because they simply have no skills” (1). 5. He argues that a majority…………………….

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