Before I begin, let me notify you that it has taken me all day to finally get this thing all REWRITTEN and POSTED on here.  I had typed up this entire post when I pressed “Save” well, it gave me the “you are not logged in, please log in” notice.  And, as I expected would happen, all was ERASED…it was very sad and let me down.  So, finally, I was able to rewrite my thoughts and have them successfully posted! =]   

Paragraph 1 - The author (or perhaps I should call him by his blogging name “marmiteboy” – this sounds REALLY professional!) is discussing how he was introduced to an article through an e-mail concerning a 6-year old child who is disabled and is recieving a growth-stopping treatment.

Paragraph 2 – The author points out that although the child’s treatment is wrong (in his POV), an argument can be posed about the medical profession agreeing to give the child this growth-stopping treatment. 

Paragraph 3 – The author gives no opinion of his own here but rather uses quotes from others and simply quotes a comment from two doctors about how children with developmental disabilities can be tough to care for which become especially difficult to care for as the child grows.

Paragraph 4 - The author quote another person? (it is not clear who because there are no citations) who states that stopping the childs growth would take a burden off the parents because it will not be nearly as hard to take care of the child.   

Paragraph 5 – Finally, an opinion (10 words of the whole paragraph)!…The author quotes “the doctors” who say that even though the girl has a neurological disability, she can still communicate with her parents and all the author replys with is, “Shame she hasn’t been treated like one then isn’t it?”

Paragraph 6 – Another opinion!  Here, the reader is informed that the girl has been in treatment for one year and ”the doctors” say there have been no complications, but the author finally writes something to express his viewpoint on the topic by showing his concern for the girl getting osteoporosis because of such an early hysterectomy. 

Paragraph 7 – The author basically states how it is wrong to treat the disabled girl by stopping her growth and giving her the hysterectomy because the girl does not have the ability to have a say so in the matter. 

Paragraph 8 - Once again, the author basically loses his own voice in the matter and does nothing but quote someone who explains how it will take much more research and debating to find out whether stopping a childs growth is with or against our moral values for the care of disabled children.     

Paragraph 9 – The author places his strongest statements that concider his “against” view on the topic, in this last paragraph.  For example, he writes, “There is only one thing to say about this. It is totally unacceptable and wrong to treat a child (disabled or not) like a laboratory rat.” 

 I definitely do not think that this would be a logical source in writing a paper about Ashley because, well, first of all, did you notice the name of the author and the names of the people who commented on this article?!  Weird!!  Second, the author does not do a very good job citing his sources.  It is also quite clear that the author does not have much of a voice of his own because all he seems to be able to do is quote other people AND he even ends a few paragraphs with quotations of others.