Learning Outcome 2

Integration of quotes is a very important part of every single essay as it creates the beef and the evidence within and essay. Without quotes it is pointless to write an essay that you are trying to show any sort of point within. Using quotations properly can be difficult though when it comes to finding the right quote and explaining it in a way the reader would understand and that proves your point. My ability to use quotes developed a decent amount over the course of the semester. In my third essay I was discussing the limitations and the existence of limitations and it was based on the human and animal relationships. I had been talking about the limitations of killing animals and the ways in which on can change and “One of the relationships described is “there is Jim Thompson, a 25-year-old doctoral student in mathematics. Before beginning graduate school, Jim had worked in a poultry research laboratory in Lexington, Kentucky, where one of his jobs was dispatching baby chicks at the end of the experiments. For a while, this posed no problem for Jim. However, things changed one day when he was looking for a magazine to read on a plane and his mother handed him a copy of The Animals’ Agenda, a magazine that advocated animal rights. He never ate meat again (Herzog)”. Now in this Jim had never considered what he was doing. Killing baby animals is something that I find extremely immoral. There is also the even worse part that they were being experimented on. In this quote Jim transferred from having no limitations at all to becoming a vegetarian like Foer had done and put a very large limitation on himself.” I had explained how in this quote my point was being shown that this kid who had worked in a lab had no limitations when it came to these animals, but one thing came around and completely changed his though process and his mind. He saw what he was doing was wrong and put the limitation on himself of being a vegetarian. In class we had discussed using multi-sentence quotes in order to beef up an essay and really prove what you were trying to say. I had gone from using half a sentence to a few words and thinking that was a good enough quote to using half of a paragraph in order to make sure I got my whole point across within the quote.