Blog Assignment 6

Blog Assignment 6


The example of a quotation in the "A Way With Words, or Away With Words: Effect of Texting and IMing on Language" (by Timothy Barrano)

On the fourth paragraph ( page 27)

"Statistically, they found that 'the use of short forms, abbreviations, and emotional language is infinitesimally small, less than 3% of the data'(Tagliamonate and Denis 24)."

The example of a paraphrase in the "A Way With Words, or Away With Words: Effect of Texting and IMing on Language" (by Timothy Barrano)

On the fourth paragraph ( page 28)

"Individuals pick and choose from all the available ... ... Sociolinguistic resources in their speech community.(by Timothy Barrano)

The reasons why the writer choose to present their research material in this way is to make the topic and the exact figures highlights what the authors would like to express about the central idea, but also a better description of the essence of the problem. The fourth paragraph talked about the presence of some major flaws is supported by the findings of researchers Sali Tagliamonte. So all of these quotation and paraphrase are the extracts of Tagliamonte's Book. The original sentence can be more precisely to the question. All of these research are the supports and evidence of the point of the author's view. The information that derived through the investigation is scientific and accurately to support the author's point of view.