1. (approx 150 words) What did you learn from reading this? Anything new? What questions or comments do you have on how to use sources?

It is interesting that the way a quotation is used has a profound impact on the reader and his or her opinion on the writer. By reading this article I was able to learn that the correct way to cite a piece of writing and quote certain phrases comes from the preparation or the preliminary sentence that prepares the reader for the upcoming quote, the actual quote itself and most importantly from the elaboration of the quote by the writer and what stand the writer is taking regarding the quote, his opinion on the quote and why he thinks it is a valid or invalid statement. Such practices of citing and quoting are very decent to the readers and also to the writers themselves as on follows a particular discipline while writing, a discipline that brings joy through its sequence of the preliminaries, the main quote and the final elaboration and opinion of the writer.

2.   (150-200 words) Write a paragraph for your intended audience for Unit 3 using one of your “quotables” from Unit 2 in that paragraph. Keep Stedman’s guidelines in mind while writing this paragraph. Be kind to your audience! Try not to lose them by the side of the road!

In the previous unit, my work was dedicated on searching for the cause and cure of depression and anxiety which led me to explore different fields of science. The one that seemed to stand out the most is the science of meditation and as we know there are many books and articles on meditation, but my book was written by a monk who had been studying and teaching for over 40 years, his name is Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse and his book ‘what makes you not a buddhist’ states, “we do not acknowledge that our bodies and environment are made up of unstable elements that can fall apart with even the slightest provocation”. This particular quote left such a profound impact on my attitude. I felt that if we appreciate the unpredictability and the impermanent nature of all phenomena, we can learn to appreciate the most insignificant things in life, like walking down the street or tying your shoelace. Who knows? This could be your last walk or the last time you tie your shoelace. We have no time to be sad, we must make the best of our existence.

 

Am I in the Right Movie?

 

 This inquisition talks directly to all the writer’s hearts. All of us have moments where our cited word and our additional explanations don’t fit or don’t go as we expect them to. “Am I in the right movie” precisely describes the feeling we get when we encounter such situations which is why I found this quote worthy of quoting and explaining.
What we read and what we know sometimes meld together so unnoticeably that we don’t know which ideas and pieces of information are “ours” and which aren’t.

 

 This quote indirectly warns us to set our boundaries and to distinctly and clearly discern between what we are citing and what we are proposing or suggesting.