Below are quotations from various sources. If you were using these sources in a paper, would you quote, summarize, or paraphrase? Explain your decision.
I am in awe of them, and I feel privileged to have been a witness to their
lives and their sacrifi ces. There were so many other people whose stories
could have been in this book, who embodied the standards of greatness in
the everyday that the people in this book represent, and that give this generation
its special quality and distinction. As I came to know many of them,
and their stories, I became more convinced of my judgment on that day
marking the fi ftieth anniversary of D-Day. This is the greatest generation
any society has produced. (Tom Brokaw, The Greatest Generation; Brokaw’s
book is about American men and women who came of age during the Great
Depression and World War II.)