The Rhetoric Of Objectivity

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An author is expanding he or her ethos and logs in a scholar journal and popular article by quotation. The quotation is used in order to expand the knowledge of the paper and established a credible of a topic. According to Linton, Madigan and Johnson scientific paper stay away from using direct quotation for two reason “First the practice of rephrasing minimizes explicit attention to the language in which ideas are expressed and contributes to what George Dillon has called “the rhetoric of objectivity and Second, the convention of condensing and paraphrasing rather than quoting directly diminishes the need for public dispute or for the kind of clarification that sometimes seems quibbling (71)”. Simeonov and Himmelstein use a quotation from

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