Quotation and Paraphrasing in Murayama’s Essay
Proper research is a primary requirement for one to write an excellent article or essay. While doing research, the author may decide to use the same words and quote the original author from the source or paraphrase the information. Murayama, in her article, she utilizes these skills to communicate with her readers. In this context, the paper discusses how the author incorporates paraphrasing and quotation in her essay.
Murayama acquired information that she used to write her essay “What It Looks Like, How It Feels,” from professional and accessible scholarly resources or articles. Examples of these resources are; “Bridging the Gap: Integrating Visual and Verbal Rhetoric,” 2000 by McGrane, Karen, “Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders in DSM-III,” 1978 by Spitzer, Robert L., Nancy C. Andreasen, and Jean Endicott, and “Remitting schizophrenia as a variant of affective disorder.” 1978 by Fowler, Richard C.
Murayama includes the use of direct quotations in her work. “An early developmental neuropathological process” is an example of a direct quote that the author uses in the essay (McGrane 215). The author needed to directly quote the information so that it could not only tell that the information was borrowed, but also to pass the intended message. I could have approached paraphrasing and direct quotation in my essay the same way as the author did to communicate with my readers. However, there are instances where I could have chosen to use fewer words such as; “It strikes both men and women and is found all over the world” (McGrane 215). In the above quote, I have eliminated the phrase “usually during adolescence or early adulthood,” as used by Murayama in her essay.
In summary, paraphrasing and direct quotation are essential tools for one to write an article. In the article, Murayama uses direct words from the sources to quote the author’s information. Furthermore, the author does not only quote information directly but also uses her own words to pass the message in the essay.
Work Cited
McGrane, Karen. “Bridging the Gap: Integrating Visual and Verbal Rhetoric.” Inventing a Discipline: Rhetoric Scholarship in Honor of Richard E. Young. National Council of Teachers of English, Urbana, IL. (2000): 207.