Working with Quotations
Base your examples on works studied this term. Remember that you may quote words from Temple Grandin's speech at Ted.com, for example. Try using the interactive transcript at the right of the video window. I will post samples this weekend. In the meantime, try writing a few examples of your own for practice.
One sentence that introduces a quote, uses a comma to separate the quote and has the quote end the sentence.
One sentence that introduces a quote with a colon.
One sentence with the quoted words in the middle of a sentence.
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Temple Grandin informs us that “the autistic mind . . . tends to get fixated,” and also offers a solution, suggesting that teachers could “use that fixation to motivate.” (this is a “hybrid” showing a quote both inside and at the end of a sentence)
William Zinsser makes a bold statement about a writer’s vocabulary: “The Anglo-Saxon words will set you free.”
Shane Koycan, in the full version of “We Are More,” uses an apt metaphor for a multicultural Canada when he says, “we are cultures strung together / then woven into a tapestry.”
In Edwidge Danticat’s story, “Ghosts,” she describes for us the exhausted face of Pascal’s mother as “darker than the bottom of the burned pot she was scrubbing.”
In the story “Ghosts”, the ironies occur when the characters’ lives are surrounded by gang members: Pescal’s brother, a police man, is blamed by neighbors when “ a neighborhood gang member [is] arrested,” and Pescal, the one who hates gangs, finally realizes that “ he [shares] this with them.”
William Zinsser, a writer, editor, and teacher, appealed to his students: “ Never try in your writhing to be someone you are not.”
Sometimes, poetry can create the image that is beyond the description; for example, “we do more than sit around and say ‘eh?’” (We Are More, line 28)
Temple Grandin says that the autistic mind is just “good at one thing, bad at something else,” so are other kinds of minds, and then she concludes that “the world is going to need all kinds of the different kinds of minds to work together.”
In Temple Grandin’s lecture at Ted, she states the thinking style of an animal: “It thinks in pictures, thinks in sounds, and thinks in smells.”
When Temple Grandin explains “what is thinking in pictures,” she describes it as “literally movies in your head.”
I’ve learned a lot about what is good writing from William Zinsser’s “Writing Good English.” Now, when I start to write, I would recall the advice of: “using the simple tools of the English language and never losing [my] own humanity.”
From the “Ghost” story, you may find people in a poor country living with many conflicts. For example, although Pascal’s parent didn’t approve the way people treated the pigeons in a ritual, “but for each bird that was killed this way they were paid enough to buy two more.” To survive, sometimes there are fewer choices.
Understanding that some people are like animals who are “sensory based thinkers” that Temple Grandin said, I am not thinking the autistic people are acting in a weird way anymore.
My apologies for misspelling Shane Koyczan's name. Remember, like me, to check for typos before posting. I'll leave mine up so it remains first on the post, but note that I'm not the only one with errors (e.g. correct titles and spelling of character names etc.)
Brad Cran encourages female athletes by sharing the stories of “women [who] broke world records in sports,” and shows that Gian Franco Kasper, the President of the International Ski Federation, is wrong in saying that “ski jumping is too dangerous for women.”
It is inspiring to hear how Temple Grandin answers a question about passion: “I’m passionate about that the things I do are going to make the world a better place.”
Using long and fancy words is one of the habits in writing of the students but they might change it if they read William Zinsser’s advice not to use “fancy [words just] to make yourself look smart.”
In his speech, William Zinsser adviced the students to, "fall in love with active verbs."
William Zinsser emphasized that effective writting means:"using simple words...words that are in our bones, words that resonate with the oldest truths."
In the story, "Ghost," Pascal dreams to start his radio program with segment in "lost limbs," in his desire to expose the realities that haunts their country.
In the story “Ghosts”, Pascal was surprised by news manager’s speech about the radio program- in-studio conversation between gang members and business leaders, “they’ll hash out their differences, and “he heard the new manager say, “With the help of a trained arbitrator.” That was Pascal’s idea that they stole it.
William Zinsser’s announcement: “long Latin nouns are the enemy”, amazed me. I always thought that, it is good to use them.
Temple Gardin thought if she was a dog, “[she] would find it easy to think that the chair made the bad thing happen.”
Shane Koyczan in “We Are More” poem believes to all the Canadians that, “we do more than grow wheat and brew beer” he also indicates that, “we believe in generation beyond our own.”
William Zinsser made a good suggestion to all the writers: “No proverbs please”
Temple Grandin taught us that dealing with animals in a good way without treating them” makes them more eager to please you” because she gave an example that “you don’t need to be playing if a lion is going to eat you.”
Temple Grandin expressed her belief that "when you see a bad behaviour in an animal,.....and if you punish it, you make it worse".Her way to understand animals behaviours.
In Ghost, the injustice and desrimination from the gang members to the owner."what do you expect?","you are chilling in all this ice while we're in hell".the metaphore that shows that mercy and love are lost.
From William Zinsser, writing good English is to keep our writing simple and clear."If I wrote sentences like that,people would think I'm stupid."
Temple Grandin, diagnosed with autism as a child, talks about how her mind works -- sharing her ability to "think in pictures," which helps her solve problems that neurotypical brains might miss.
Temple Grandin is widely considered "the world's leading expert on the welfare of cattle and pigs.”
In using Quotation,The example with colon is:
Hamlet has to question everything, starting with death:"to be or not to be, that is the question."
Tample Grandin introduces “Three type of thinking,” include:”Photo realistic visual thinkers, pattern thinker, and verbal mind.”
William Zinsser recommends four simple principles:”Clarity, simplicity, brevity, and humanity.”
Edwidge Danticat wrote about”Bel Air,” as a “Lawless and overpopulated city,” and people are really “Destitute,” and “poor.”
William Zinsser teaches his students writing good English is “Simple”, “Be yourself, never try in your writing to be someone you’re not.”
Temple Grandin’s thinking in pictures shows us how autistic mind works, It’s literally “movies in your head;” My mind works like a Google for images.
In Shane Koyczan’s poem, “We are more,” It explains that “we do more than grow wheat and brew beer.”
William Zinsser reminds us that English is "not as musical as Spanish, or Italian, or French," but it is an interesting language because "it has a huge voacbulary of words that precise shades of meaning."
William Zinsser teaches us that simplicity equals good English: "Writing is not something you have to embroider with fancy stitches to make yourself look smart."
In "Ghost" by Edwidge Danticat, the policemen went to Pascal's home and "blindfolded him, and dragged him out of bed."
William Zinsser provided for us the right pathway for the successful writing English language. “Short is better than long,” and, “one thought per sentence.”
In Edwidge Dantica story, “GHOSTS”, she describes for us the exhausted movements of Pascal’s father, “pilling the last night’s food onto a plate for himself, a cigarette dangling from his lips.”
Temple Grandin have given us the clear picture about autism and about understanding their special way of interacting with the world “We have to get away from verbal language”, “I see in pictures.”
Temple Grandin believes understanding animals is as simple as “you’re just not thinking like an animal” she tries to explain the barrier between human thought and animal thought “the animal world is all sensory-based – vision, smell, sound, touch and taste”
William Zinsser argues that good writing is achieved by being simple and avoiding Latin words: “they will strangle and suffocate everything you write.”
Temple Grandin speaks about misinterpreting animal behavior “what you see as aggression might in fact be fear”, explaining that simply thinking like an animal can prevent such confusion.
In story, "Ghosts", Tiye says, "I just thought I'd give you a taste", was a preview for Pascal in the life of a gangster, "As long as I'm here nothing will happen to us tonight".
William Zinsser states what he admires in good writing: "I admire, a simple sentence with short words".
Shane Koyczan, in "We are More", tells that Canadians are welcoming and open-hearted, "We are families with room at the table for newcomers".
Shane Koyczan is very proud of Canada in his poem "We Are More" for its great achievements, extraordinary people and distinctive multicultural when he says, "we made it be."
William Zinsser gives some "stupid" examples of the King James Bible, Abraham Lincoln and Barack Obama to show us his idea about what is good writing: "Simple is good."
It is beyond our mind that Temple Grandin, a autistic person and a professor, informs use that "if you punish it, you make it worse" when training animals
In Shane Koycznan’s poem, “We are more,” he clearly portrays Canada is a multicultural society: “the colours of Chinatown and the coffee of Little Italy.”
William Zinsser suggests only using “short, plain Anglo-Saxon verbs” in the writing because “they are more clarity, simplicity, brevity, and humanity.”
In Edwidge Danticat’s “Ghost”, Pascal initially wants to start the radio show exposing “the phantom limbs, phantom minds, phantom loves” in Bel Air, but he almost becomes one of them in the end of story.
I am truly sorry for the lateness of my homework. I can’t find any excuse for the lateness, having a classmate like Owen who turns in his homework at 4:30am.
As Shane Koyczan declares in “We Are More,” Canada still has many wonders waiting for adventure seekers to discover, saying “Canada is the ‘What’ in ‘What’s new?’”
William Zinsser stresses how important clarity is in “Writing Good English”: “If it’s not clear you might as well not write it.”
In her story “Ghosts,” Edwidge Danticat’s shows us that the distressed father’s face has “a facial tic—a quick batting of his eyes and an involuntary twitching of his mouth.”
Temple Grandin speaks out about how "It's so hard for normal people to think like animals," its hard to imagine what that would be like, but she explains "The animal world is all sensory-based - vision, smell, sound, touch, and taste."
William Zinsser teaches us in his writing: "Long Latin nouns are the enemy."
Shane Koyczan speaks up for all canadians at the Olympic opening ceremonies stating that "we are not just fishing stories about the one that got away" and also that "we do more then just sit around and say "eh?"."
In the lecture, Temple Grandin asked us to “get away from verbal language,” and accepted different thoughts. For her or some autistic persons, they have different patterns to think. On the earth, it causes variety of inventions that people have different patterns of thoughts. She invented many things owing to her different thoughts, and she has a special pattern of thought, “thinking in pictures.”
William Zinsser suggests four principles of writing good English:” Clarity, Simplicity, Brevity, and Humanity.”
In the history, some famous people,” Einstein, Mozat and Tesla, probably were autistic. Based on their efforts, we have better knowledge and beautiful things. Temple Grandin expected us to accept different pattern of thoughts.
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