I want to start off with what I feel was a classic example of mistakes I often make when trying to use direct quotes as evidence shown below in this section of my significant writing project.
How Beck and Strawson define narrative seems to be different. Beck sees narrative as a loose term to mean a cohesive storyline within the events of a persons life “In the realm of narrative psychology, a person’s life story is not a Wikipedia biography of the facts and events of a life, but rather the way a person integrates those facts and events internally—picks them apart and weaves them back together to make meaning. This narrative becomes a form of identity, in which the things someone chooses to include in the story, and the way she tells it, can both reflect and shape who she is. A life story doesn’t just say what happened, it says why it was important, what it means for who the person is, for who they’ll become, and for what happens next.”
For one I think this quote is a bit too long I could have cut down how much I pulled from the text and had the same if not more effective. Next, I did not explain why I had the quote in there well enough nor who Beck was well enough. There should have been more explanation before and after the quote to create a better quote sandwich.
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