Analysis of Quotations and Paraphrases in “A Way with Words, or Away with Words”

The essay that I am going to analyze is “A Way with Words, or Away with Words: Effect of Texting and IMing on Language”, written by Timothy Barranco. The reasons why I choose this essay is not only its ideas are short and clear, but also mainly because its quotations and paraphrases are accurately and reasonably used.
There is a very good example about the quotations that “Statistically, they found that ‘the use of short forms… less than 3%’”. Since this is a statistic data, Timothy Barranco arranges it in a quotation form. This data presents that there are only a few of short forms, abbreviations, and emotional language is used in text messages. This quotation is used accurately to support the main idea of that there is little bad impact on the writing of txt users.
On the other hand, the paraphrases are also imported very reasonable. A good example of “So rather than scoff at what is new and different, we should embrace these changes as a healthy addition to our robust and modern English language”. The original sentence is “We should embrace these changes as a healthy addition to our robust and modern English language”. The original sentence is about what we should do and the sentence before it presents the wrong thing that we are doing now. Therefore, Timothy puts this sentence at the end of a paragraph reasonably to give readers a result about what we should do. This paraphrase also supports the main idea that txt is a good trend.
After reading Timothy Barranco’s “A Way with Words, or Away with Words: Effect of Texting and IMing on Language”, we can learn a lot in the quotation and paraphrase aspect. Many of the quotations and paraphrases are used accurately and reasonably.

History Favorites Winners

“A person, who succeeds, is a king, while a person who fails is a prisoner.” This Chinese proverb means that winners will have everything, while losers are just losers. People learn history most from books. However, books are always published by winners and this is the reason why history favorites winners.
There is a very obvious example that, the independence of America. American beat British Kingdom and become independent then. In history, the war is called “Independent War” because the war presents the eager of freedom of Americans. This part of history is certainly written by the new American Federal Government. In contrast, however, if Americans lost the war at that time, those fighters who were seeking for freedom would be called traitors instead of heroes. If so, everything changes now. Another example is illustrated in the article, “Discovering the Truth about Columbus”, which is written by Charles Sugnet and Joanna O’Connell. Columbus is a hero in history because he found the new continental. However, if the “loser”, Native Americans wrote the history, there would probably be some content about Columbus’s bad treatment on them.
Therefore, history is always written by winners and that is why history favorites them.