1. In Peter F. Martin's article "Destroyed", Peter discusses the use of performance enhancers in professional sports; But instead of criminalizing the players for their harmful indulgences, He states that the athletes are victims to the steroids and its often life taking properties that should be helped. Although the public eye sees the use of these drugs as harmful to the sport, more attention should be paid to the harmful and often life taking side effects given to the players.2. Paragraph #10 reminds its audience that although performance enhancers threaten the fairness of the competition, It more importantly plays a large threat to the athletes themselves who make the games happen in the first place. 3. "Athletes are as free as other people to make mistakes and suffer the consequences; in short, they are humans like the rest of us. Or at least they were before they started juicing."(1). I found the ending to this article interesting as the author finalizes with a statement that sounds rhetorical in its nature.
(1) Martin, Peter F. "Destroyed", The Bedford Reader, Boston, New York 2012.
Your summary does a good job of depicting the key ideas that the author is trying to convey, specifically the harm of the drugs and what they do to the athletes.
ReplyDeleteParaphrasing, however, is mirroring the author's key ideas in a way that it is a direct reflection of the original, just with different word choice. Moreover, just because we put in our own words, the idea still belongs to your author and needs to be cited with an in-text citation. Review the example from this link to see how to properly paraphrase, as this skill will be something you will use the duration of your college career:
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/563/1/
With your quotation, give me more. Why did you chose it, aside from his rhetoric? What stood out about it?
Nice job with your works cited, but the only thing that should be italicized is the The Bedford.
Hi, Tony
ReplyDeleteI think that your summary does a good job of telling the main points of the story and i especially like that you added the part of how the steroids can harm the athletes and that people should be aware of that.
Great work! Everything looks well written!