Journal 3 — They Say I Say Response “The Art of Quoting”
One of my favorite ways to enhance a writing piece is to stitch quotes within. Quotes can help support claims the author makes, explain thoughts and ideas, and give a different view point on a certain subject. In the chapter The Art of Quoting, a part at the top of page 44 that immediately stuck out to me being a relatable and blatant issue of writing today (of which I’m also guilty for) is “…the main problem with quoting arises when writers assume that quotations speak for themselves. Because the meaning of a quotation is obvious to them, many writers assume that this meaning will also be obvious to their readers, when often it is not.” Putting quotes in a writing piece is effective, yes, but everyone interprets something being written differently. The words in the quotation may mean something different to the reader than how the author intended it to be meant when adding it in.
Another part that stuck out to me is the “Don’t be a hit-and-run quoter” section on page 46. The authors of this book explain what a hit-and-run quote is, “Quotations that are inserted into a text without [a built-in quotation frame, including an introduction and an explanation] are sometimes called ‘dangling’ quotations for the way they’re left dangling without any explanation.” It’s easy to simply put a quote into a piece of writing and move onto another subject. However, going back to the idea of perspective, the reader may not have interpreted that quotation the way the author intended it to be interpreted, and a lack of explanation or support around the quote will seem abrupt, incohesive, and vague.
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