3.10 Practicing Quoting.

The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) construction site selection has become the frustrations of many in Hawaii. The three major groups involved are the scientific community, the state of Hawaii, and the Native Hawaiians. A great misconception made by the scientific community and state of Hawaii Government is that they believe the Native Hawaiian are against the Thirty Meter Telescope’s scientific benefits. Jay Handlin, attorney for the University of Hawaii, which sub-leases the land atop Mauna Kea for the telescope project defended the building of TMT by stating, “The ultimate final decision of the board granting the [permit] represents the culmination of a process of years of community outreach, of dialogue, of listening, revising, reducing, modifying, mitigating, conditioning to a degree that is unprecedented in the history of astronomy at Mauna Kea.” [1] Many telescope supporters have the same view falsely believing they followed the state’s policies, have explained the potential scientific gains to the natives and that there should be no opposition from the natives. The truth is that the native Hawaiian’s have decided to openly take a stand against the development of their sacred lands. Vicky Holt Takamine, a kumu hula, or hula teacher, explains that "[The native Hawaiian people have] been advocating for no more development on Mauna Kea for years. And our words have fallen on deaf ears."[2] The native Hawaiians have no issue with the science, there opposition is the development and desecration of the sacred land in Hawaii.

1) “Hawaii Supreme Court hears Mauna Kea telescope case,” dnews.pk, 28 August 2015, <http://pkdnews.tumblr.com/post/127765100844/hawaii-supreme-court-hears-mauna-kea-telescope> (accessed 10 September 2015).

2) M. Solomon, “Construction Of Giant Telescope In Hawaii Draws Natives’ Ire,” NPR.org, 21 April 2015, <http://www.npr.org/2015/04/21/400390724/construction-of-giant-telescope-in-hawaii-draws-natives-ire> (accessed 10 September 2015).

Legend:

1. Signal phrases to mark the boundaries between your words and the sources’ words
2. Establish the authority of the people/sources being quoted
3. Put the source material into effective context
4. Use of ellipsis mark to eliminate unnecessary words from the quote in order and/or force it to conform to your sentence’s grammatical structure OR use the brackets to insert your own words into the quote in order to clarify something and/or force it to conform to your sentence’s grammatical structure