The article that I choose to read is the first essay, namely, “Radical But Right” by Sarah Wells.
The example of a paraphrase I choose is in her third paragraph. The paraphrase sentence is “A spectacular account of elephants’ compassion is resorted by the News 24 website, which describes a small herd of elephants deliberately setting free a group of captured antelope(“Elephant,”，2003，para.1)”. In this paragraph, writer wants to emphasize the fact that animal also has strong emotion. I suppose writer paraphrases this sentence instead of quotation is because she is more likely to agree with this content which is able to support her topic sentence. In this way, the readers not only have a general idea about why she thinks animal has their emotional depth, but also it is also very specific.
The example of a quotation I choose is in her fifth paragraph, which is “Dogs are bred to be eaten (Jeffries, 2004, para.10)”. In this paragraph, writer wants to let readers know what kind of situation that animals are treated in the restaurant. And by using this quotation, it will make writer’s words clear: animals have been treating badly.
By comparing with paraphrasing, the information that writer gives by using quotation is more specific than this of paraphrasing. It is a narrow segment of the original sources and picked up deliberately by writer to support her own idea.
Overall, it is clear that function of both paraphrase and quotation is to support writer’s idea. Those quotation and paraphrase will make writer’s idea more convincing. Also, doing research is also a way to widen own perspective towards essay’s topic. A process of research will enhance our understanding of the topic. Namely, the more we read, the more information derived from our topic will come out, contributing our easy to become “a paper written to reflect a search that will present information to support a point of view on a particular topic", saying by P. Berge and C. L. Saffioti, Basic College Research (Neal-Schuman, New York, 1987).
2009年10月24日星期六
2009年10月10日星期六
Assignment 5
The fact of some historical events would not change if considering things is in an objective way, although some historical events may be described in different ways, appreciative terms, derogatory terms, and neutral terms. For example, in a war, winners are always likely to prove their legitimacy, eulogize and even exaggerate the victories; words in winners’ history textbook would be appreciative terms, such as ‘great’, ‘milestone’ and so on. On the contrary, it is not hard to imagine what kind of words would be used to describe ashamed failure in losers’ history; words could be filled with fury, complaint, regret, and criticism.
In 1949, Chiang Kai-shek were defeated by the communist party and left for Taiwan. It is a ‘liberation war’ called by communist party. It is also ‘a fall to enemy occupation’ called by Chiang Kai-shek. Although I have not read the taiwan’s history textbook, I can estimate what kind of content would be there. They may write multitudinous mistakes made on tactics and strategies which were avoidable brought to lose, leading mainland of China to be captured by robber, Mao Zedong. Also, they may give a promise that there would be one day that they will come back to mainland of China and help those people who are under a terrifying regime to have a real life, with criticizing, regretting, and furious words, and those words would never be added to mainland of China’s history textbook. What the content in mainland of china’s history textbook is, the communist party tells the youth generation, it is communist party that won the liberation of war, liberating the country and giving people a new life. Eliminate those biased and emotional words; the fact is simple and clear: Chiang Kai-shek lost a war, and the communist party won.
This is a world governed by the law of the jungle .Only the fittest survives. Therefore, it is a privilege but also a right for the winners to write the history as they like. However, the truth of history is underlying, but is able to find out as long as try to be objective and consider both side, the winners and the losers.
In 1949, Chiang Kai-shek were defeated by the communist party and left for Taiwan. It is a ‘liberation war’ called by communist party. It is also ‘a fall to enemy occupation’ called by Chiang Kai-shek. Although I have not read the taiwan’s history textbook, I can estimate what kind of content would be there. They may write multitudinous mistakes made on tactics and strategies which were avoidable brought to lose, leading mainland of China to be captured by robber, Mao Zedong. Also, they may give a promise that there would be one day that they will come back to mainland of China and help those people who are under a terrifying regime to have a real life, with criticizing, regretting, and furious words, and those words would never be added to mainland of China’s history textbook. What the content in mainland of china’s history textbook is, the communist party tells the youth generation, it is communist party that won the liberation of war, liberating the country and giving people a new life. Eliminate those biased and emotional words; the fact is simple and clear: Chiang Kai-shek lost a war, and the communist party won.
This is a world governed by the law of the jungle .Only the fittest survives. Therefore, it is a privilege but also a right for the winners to write the history as they like. However, the truth of history is underlying, but is able to find out as long as try to be objective and consider both side, the winners and the losers.
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