The Use of Quotations and Paraphrases in Youth Voting

The paper I chose to read was written by Jeffrey Bivin who talked about the issue of youth voting. This paper explains the reasons why most young citizens are disconnected from political area.
In this paper, the writer uses a lot of paraphrases and quotations to support his main ideas of the paper. One of the most successful paraphrases I think is “Voter turnout for those aged 18-24 reached a record low of 28% during 1996 presidential election (Delli Carpini 342)”. The sentence I just mentioned appears in the second paragraph of the paper. Here, the writer wants to catch readers’ attention because most readers will be surprised when they learn most young people in the U.S.A. do not care about the most important vote--- the presidential election.
For explaining the reasons why young citizens do not involve voting, the writer uses three quotations to explain. One of the three quotations is “Additionally, youth are “Less likely to read a newspaper or watch the news. Thirsty-six percent of young adults…say they follow the news every day, as compared with 52% of those between…30 and 45” (Delli Carpini 342)”. Here, the writer just wants to use a truth to tell the readers that young people do not focus on the news. However, I do not really the way he explains here because he uses a lot of quotations in one paragraph. However, I have to say that I can understand his idea here very well. Thus, it is a good example of using quotations.
Form my own perspective, the writer uses quotations and paraphrases very well because he tries to catch his readers’ attention step by step. Such as, he uses a paraphrase which has figures to attract. Later, he uses many quotations to explain the reasons why young citizens do not like voting. In addition, the writer also uses paraphrases and quotations to talk about the older people’s view about the issue of voting. Here, the writer wants to use the different views to highlight young voters’ value about voting.
All in all, this is a really good paper because the writer uses limited sources to explain his idea effectively.