Practicing Summary and Paraphrase

In the following post, I will choose a quote from my article and properly summarize and paraphrase it.

Jurvetson, Steve. "How the Eagle Landed- the Grumman Construction Log."
 07/17/2012 via Flickr. Attribution 2.0 Generic License.

Original Source

• "I did not know I had the BRCA gene. I did not know I would get breast cancer when I was still young, when the disease is a wild animal. I caught it fast and I acted fast, but I must have looked away: by the time of my double mastectomy, the cancer had spread to five lymph nodes. I had eight rounds of the strongest chemotherapy there is for breast cancer. Two months later, my body still tingles from the blast. My insides are shimmering. I am reconfigured."

Paraphrase of Original Source

• In "The Breast Cancer Gene and Me", Elizabeth Wurtzel tells a tale of the pain and suffering she underwent, using descriptive words to show the remnants of agony she endured and how they still effect her. This personal narrative strategy is used to convince the audience to get tested for the BRCA gene, particularly those with a history of cancer in their family. 

Summary of the Original Source

• In the beginning of the article, Elizabeth Wurtzel begins with telling of the agony she endured, and it later connects to how one can avoid that pain by getting tested for the BRCA gene.