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Instructions: 1. Read each paragraph thoroughly, noting where the…
Instructions:
1. Read each paragraph thoroughly, noting where the quoted passage is inserted.
2. Evaluate the integration of the quoted passage using the C.O.P.E. method.
3. For each passage, identify whether the quote is integrated fully using C.O.P.E. or if a crucial element of quote integration is missing.
4. Once you’ve identified what’s missing (if anything), tell me how you would correct the integration. Be
specific here. If your answer is “I would cut the quote down for efficiency” then show me what the
reduced quote would be. If you answer is, “I would add a better opening” then tell me what opening you
would add.
Passage 1: Workplace relationships can be tough. “So my unsolicited advice to women in the workplace is this. When faced with sexism or ageism or lookism or even really aggressive Buddhism, ask yourself the following question: ‘Is this person in between me and what I want to do?’ If the answer is no, ignore it and move on. Your energy is better used doing your work and outpacing people that way. Then, when you’re in charge, don’t hire the people who were jerky to you” (Fey 144). Fey asserts that when dealing with workplace discrimination of any kind, it’s important to ask yourself if it is bad enough to report or not.
Passage 2: In her essay, “How to Be Friends with Another Woman,” Roxane Gay tries to dispel the myth that women can’t be friends with other women without jealousy and gives tips for how women should relate. For example, she asserts “If a friend sends a crazy e-mail needing reassurance about love, life, family, or work, respond accordingly and in a timely manner even if just to say, ‘GIRL, I hear you.’ If a friend sends you like thirty crazy emails needing reassurance about the same [stuff], be patient because one day that’s going to be you tearing up Gmail with your drama” (50).
Passage 3: David Sedaris a well-known writer and essayist who often uses his personal experiences as material for comedic writing. In his essay, Why Aren’t You Laughing? Reckoning with addiction., he writes about his mother’s alcohol addiction. “When I was eleven, my father planted a line of olive bushes in front of the house. They were waist-high and formed a kind of fence. By the mid-eighties, they were so overgrown that pedestrians had to quit the sidewalk and take to the street instead. People with trash to drop waited until they reached our yard to drop it, figuring the high grass would cover whatever they needed to discard. It was like the Addams Family house, which would have been fine had it still been merry, but it wasn’t anymore. Our mother became the living ghost that haunted it, gaunt now, and rattling ice cubes instead of chains” (par. 36). With his comedic take on alcoholism, Sedaris makes the subject easier to relate to.
Passage 4: Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been a champion for disenfranchised people groups her entire legislative career. In her book, My Own Words, she takes the opportunity to describe her thinking and legal rationale for many of her pursuits as an attorney and decisions as a judge. Workplace discrimination has been a focus of her work and she explains the current state of workplace discrimination law in a speech that she gave in 1971 as she was just beginning her fight. She describes, “Currently, federal legislation and guidelines, and vigorous efforts of women to enforce them, are beginning to rescue the submissive majority from the confinement of old-style state protective laws and the discriminatory practices of employers. Principal measures on the national level are the Equal Pay Act of 1963, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the most recently, guidelines issued by the Labor Department designed to eliminate discrimination against women in jobs under federal contracts” (121). Ginsburg clearly outlines why legislation on workplace discrimination against women should be worked on.
Passage 5: Comedian Amy Schumer is known to be brash and bold in her comedy. However, she has also endured a lot of criticism from the media about her body and the unashamed why that she talks about it and shows it on her show and in her stand-up routine. Schumer uses a huge portion of her book, The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo, to talk about her own body image issues that stem from difficult circumstances in her younger days such as being a victim of date rape. Yet, she says she has worked to make peace with her body and become a self-confident woman. She proclaims this by saying “…I’ve experienced a lot of desperation and self-doubt, but in a way, I’ve come full circle. I know my worth. I embrace my power. I say if I’m beautiful. I say if I’m strong. You will not determine my story. I will. I’ll speak and share and…I will never apologize for it. I am not who I sleep with. I am not my weight…I am myself. And I am all of you” (143). Schumer’s empowering proclamation shows the ways in which she has overcome her own self-doubts and the experiences that contributed to her low self-esteem. But her words also encourage her readers to be empowered as well – to develop self-confidence apart from what the world says rather than in spite of it.
