Explaining quotes has been one thing that wasn’t too difficult for me because I was taught the same thing on how to approach quotes in high school. I always tried to explain the quote background briefly at first then introduce the quote. I would then take what the quote meant to me and try to fit it in with what I was trying to convey to the reader. In my framing statement I tried to create this process by using a quote from “Animals Like Us” by Hal Herzog.

     “If people in India saw how we treat cows they would be horrified. The same thing goes for dogs and cats, we consider dogs and cats as part of our own family and some of us treat them like humans. In “Animals Like Us” Hal Herzog talks about how in Korea a “puppy can be a pet or item on the menu. Meat dogs, which are typically short-haired largish animals that look disconcertingly like Old Yeller, are raised in horrific conditions before they are slaughtered, often by electrocution.”(Herzog 4)  Herzog talks about how in different places what we think is a household pet can be food on the menu and be treated just as badly as the cows we treat in our own slaughterhouses. This goes to show whatever is on the menu we will eat anything if we are put into that position depending on the culture. It goes to show we have no consideration as humans on what is and isn’t on the menu to be eaten and treated badly. People we need to start to consider what the animals feel like and not consider what we feel like.”

     I felt like I definitely got better at introducing my quotes and trying not to put them into their own sentence to help the transition flow. I also put more effort in as the semester went on because I felt more confident in clearly explaining what my view was then connecting it with what the prompt was. I used to get off track a lot form what the quote was talking about but I am now able to focus more on the actual things that I should be talking about.

     During our class discussions they helped me a lot with trying to figure out what I needed to add and talk about within my quotes and helped connect me with things that I did not think about before. It helped me support my ideas with the quotes that I expanded what I wanted to talk about and explain about my quotes.