Please help.
Paraphrase most of the quote below but leave in some significant short quotes (no more than 5 words each). The passage appears on pg. 2.
When you quote, observe the following:
Whatever appears between quotes must be exactly like the original, word for word.
If you cut something out of a quote to make it shorter, mark the omission with ellipses:
Quoted phrases must fit the grammar of the sentence in which they appear.
If you need to change something in a quote (a tense or a pronoun, for example), put the changed word(s) in square brackets: [ ]
"And what the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation. My mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles. Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski."
Please help.
Paraphrase most of the quote below but leave in some significant short quotes (no more than 5 words each). The passage appears on pg. 2.
When you quote, observe the following:
Whatever appears between quotes must be exactly like the original, word for word.
If you cut something out of a quote to make it shorter, mark the omission with ellipses:
Quoted phrases must fit the grammar of the sentence in which they appear.
If you need to change something in a quote (a tense or a pronoun, for example), put the changed word(s) in square brackets: [ ]
"And what the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation. My mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles. Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski."
