Quote 1: Carol Dweck believes that there are ways for educators to praise their students and have them believe in themselves to create this type of mindset. “First of all, we can praise wisely, not praising intelligence or talent. That has failed…. This process of praise creates kids who are hardy and resilient” (Around 04:00). If we continue this praise and encouragement, then the students will see their progress and see the positive side of thinking in a more critical way.
With this quote I decided to use the ellipses. I got rid of the clutter in the middle of this quote that did not add anything to the quote. When I got rid of this middle part of the quote, I made sure that my audience was understanding what I was trying to convey with this quote. This shows my readers that praising the intelligence of students is a problem but if we praise the understanding their knowledge and how they develop the knowledge.
Quote 2: When looking at students with fixed mindsets, Dweck sees a big difference in how these students are performing. “On the left, you see the fixed-mindset students. There’s hardly any activity. They run from the error. They don’t engage with it” (around 01:51). These students don’t understand a problem and they get scared and run away without solving the problem they are faced with.
This quote I left the way it was because it was a shorter quote and it got right to the point. It described everything that I wanted my readers to see and understand what my message is here. I knew that this quote is short enough to get right to my point and really shows the reader just what a fixed mindset is and what it means. This is a really important quote to leave on its own and not change.
Quote 3: Lukianoff and Haidt see the hardships of what will happen when you continue to let students use trigger warnings on campuses. “And universities will have reinforced the belief that it’s okay to filter out the positive. If students graduate believing that they can learn nothing from people they dislike or from those with whom they disagree, we [educators] will have done them a great intellectual disservice” (Paragraph 57). They are stating that they are creating students with this mindset that will hinder them from going far in life, because they are so stuck in their ways and cannot expand their minds.
With this quote I added a bracket to my quote , to make my readers understand who the “we” are that Lukianoff and Haidt were talking about. I added this in so that my readers would be able to see the bigger picture instead of guessing who this “we” was. Being able to have this labeled and showed in my essay will help show my perspective and how I feel about the issue that Lukianoff and Haidt are talking about.
