Blog Assignment #6

The essay I chose to read is "The House Racing Industry: Issues and Reforms" by Christa Kurman.
As the example of paraphrase, I choose the sentance in paragraph 2" The bigest problem with the Thoroughbred of today is that large, muscular bodies and exceptionally narrow legs are desirable traits in the breeding world, Horses bred this way experience lower leg injuried, like the one suffered by Eight Belles, because the weight and strngth of their hindquarters overwhelems delicate structures in the lower legs(Kluger 54). As far as I am concerned, I think it's not only a paraphrase, it's also a topic sentence of this paragraph, author does great work in generalizing the source in his own words.
The example of quatation I found is in the 12th paragraph,"" he's just out of gas"(qtd. in Rhoden and Drape)" The quatation here is used as an internal documentation which means the sentance is directly picked from the original source. And in this paragraph, the author takes a specific event mentioned in a book for the example of steroid withdraw. And in my opinion, the quoted sentence can make the result of steroid withdraw more impressive and relevant to author and original source's mean.
Overall, both ways of researchs are fantastic in writing essays. We should use them as often as possible and follow the rules at the same time.