Blog 6 – Paraphase and Quatation of “Radical But Right”

Paraphrase example:
DeGrazia (2002) asserts that five billion birds and 1000 million mammals are killed in United States factory farms each year, and this is only one small category of animals that must endure cruelty (DeGrazia, 2002, p. 71).

The writer chose to present her research material using paraphrase because the content is simply a statement of fact, concerning nothing with authorities. Moreover this fact does not need to be presented as exactly as the original one otherwise cannot be explained clearly. Besides, paraphrase provides more flexible space for writers to rearrange sentences’ structure in order to highlight the keystone. As for this sentence, the writer particularly shows the numbers to address directly how excessively animals have been killed.

This paraphrase is applied as a detail support on the issue of cruel treatment to animals. This striking fact alerts us to protect animals and keep them from cruelty which is the main topic of the cited paragraph and one of the main points of the article.

Quotation example:
All varieties of birds are eaten, and as writer and critic Jeffries describes in his article “Food City” (2004), “dogs are bred to be eaten” (Jeffries, 2004, para. 10) and monkey brains are considered a “delicacy” in some parts of the world (Jeffries, 2004, para. 20).

The writer chose to present her research material using quotation because the cited words are so descriptive, depicting the exact picture of human being’s unlimited slaughter and attacking those who hide themselves from all the guilty of killing creatures.

This quotation completely reveals the “redeeming characteristics” (Wells, para. 4) of human beings. The writer adopts this quotation to call for human’s consciousness on confessing their guilty and respecting animal rights, which is the same as what the thesis mentions.