Wednesday, December 11, 2019

Quoting - Paraphrasing - and Summarizing

Question: Discuss about the Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing. Answer: Introduction: The story I selected is How Did I Get Here Bruce by Stefanie Freele. The author narrates about life on campus concentrating on a character named Bruce. Bruce is a seemingly quiet person who keeps to himself reading and typing on his typewriter most of the time. Nobody seems to know much about Bruce, and everyone in the building that they live appears to have their version of the story. When people start disappearing, Bruce is the main suspect although no one is sure that Bruce is responsible for the disappearance. This is until guards arrest him at the end of the story. I liked how the narrator gives a clear account of the way they lived in a building within the campus. However, what I dislike is the level of irresponsibility that the students in the building had. The students lived through their days drinking, half-assed studying, smoking pot along the river, wrestling in the slushy quad till were covered in mud on Saturday morning. (Freele, 2012). The students knew that people were disappearing from the building by being thrown down the incinerator, but no one took charge of the situation or even tried to raise an official concern(Freele, 2012). They just knew that eventually, someone would disappear down the chute, but who or when that happened did not seem to bother them. They knew that Bruce did it and despite this, they could not come up with a clear account of how sure they were it was him. It is due to their negligence that they did not know, or even ask to know what Bruce was writing or even try to understand him. References How Did I Get Here BruceStefanie FreeleFlash Fiction Online. (2017).Flashfictiononline.com. Retrieved 6 February 2017, from https://www.flashfictiononline.com/f20120801-how-did-i-get-here-bruce-stefanie-freele.html Purdue OWL: Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing. (2017).Owl.english.purdue.edu. Retrieved 6 February 2017, from https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/563/01/

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