It looks like I have to be more careful when inserting a quotation into my passage. You never know what you might end up saying. Your message might be about saving the world but wrongfully putting a quote and bam, you are now against free speech. Okay, maybe a bit dramatic, but this is what I got out of
Q As In Quotation. “From now on, another voice, a thinking significantly different from yours, will cast a shadow, making everything you’ve written so far as well as everything you will have to say in the future appear in a different light” (
Q As In Quotation pg. 75). One must be careful when and what to add a quotation as in many times it can have a different perspective, ultimately contradicting what was previously intended. Analyzing something with a quotation can sometimes be harmful to the writer, giving the impression to the reader that the writer couldn't complete a profound analyzation of the passage.
I was surprised to find
Survival of the Fittest not to be about evolution. Though after reading it thoroughly, I understood the intention of the title. As if going back to elementary with the dots and commas and semicolons, Nicholson Baker describes the history behind punctuation and its importance to language. "It even participates in those newer forms of emotional punctuation called "smileys" or "emoticons""(
Survival of the Fittest pg. 2). As punctuation evolves, it still survives serving us the purpose to help clarify what is being portrayed at the reader.
These two essays relate with what we have been doing in class lately with quotation marks, paraphrasing and correct punctuation. It helps us become better writers because we start understanding our messages better and at the same time increasing our skills as speakers and writers.
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