Blog assignment #6

There are a lot of ways to use ideas from other source. Especially paraphrases and quotations are the ways that people often use. The reason why people use those kinds of ways when they write an essay is that they can make their essay more objective, accurate and informative.

In the essay “Running Up Hill: The Struggle of Student Athletes” by Zachary Tuthill, the writer also used lots of quotations and paraphrases to make his essay more effective and informative. As an example of quotations, he wrote that Perhaps more telling is the comment make by an NCAA Division I football player who said, “football practice and games are like hitting your head ten times against a brick wall and then you go try to study for a math exam” (Humphrey, Yow, and Bowden 41-42). One of the paraphrases that he used is that According to Stress in College Athletics, which details the causes of stress to those affiliated with college athletics, ninety-five percent of male athletes and eighty-five percent of female athletes found such factors as making up assignments missed because of games and practices as a primary cause of stress (Humphrey, Yow, and Bowden 41).

By using the ways such as quotations and paraphrases, the author can make his thesis more clear and vivid. The essay that I read is about difficulties that student athletes have faced and about the factors which are needed for them to overcome the difficulties. The examples that I have written in the second paragraph contribute to vividness of the essay. Specifically, those examples help readers feel how difficult student athletes perform both academic and athletic sides simultaneously. This means that using quotations and paraphrases help the essay’s overall meaning more clear and precise.