PPT-Quote What?: Using Quotations Effectively/MLA at a Glance

UWC Writing Workshop Spring 2014 Do you recognize any of these What do they mean to you What significance do they hold Integrating Quotations What do you know about integrating quotations What aspect of integrating quotations do you struggle with the most What do you hope to take away from todays workshop. Quote Floater?. If so … then you need to learn to be a . Quote Blender. !. Whenever you are asked to provide “text evidence” in your written responses or essays, avoid quote floats! The following is an example of . In-Text Citations. Inside the paper. aka parenthetical citations. End-Text Citations. At the end of the paper. aka Work(s) Cited page. © Julie Faulkner. Information that Doesn’t Require Citations. CONNECTION. Reality make-over shows. INQUIRY. Quotations can make a character come to life. They can also bring your view, your position, come to life.. WHAT MAKES A QUOTATION POWERFUL???. TEACHING. Scene to imagine: one witness to the fight on the playground. Here’s what she reports:. Reminders, Updates, and Helpful Tools. Purpose and Tasks - AP Research course. Purpose of the lesson:. Review general citation guidelines that every responsible researcher needs to know. Learn about the changes in MLA 8. L.4.2.b . Use commas and quotation marks to mark direct speech and quotations from a text.. Quotation Marks…. a. re used to set off the direct speech, or dialogue, when writing.. g. o around the direct quote, not the part spoken by the narrator.. Why use MLA?. MLA (Modern Language Association) style is most commonly used to write papers and cite sources within the liberal arts and humanities. . Writers who properly use MLA also . build their credibility . When to Use Quotations. . Around. . what is . said . by you or someone else. (dialogue). . Around . famous sayings . (“Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re . gonna. get,” said Forrest.). Text . R. esponse Essay. Using quotes. Sometimes better to use short quotes. Don’t use quotes longer than a sentence. Rote learn quotations – select them strategically. Be accurate. Incidental Quotes – . FOREIGN LANGUAGE. it will probably sound . like I'm speaking a . foreign language . - . using words & phrases that sound so . alien. to you. it's a . process. -. no one "gets it" on his/her 1st pass. This quick . PowerPoint . focuses . on the . various . ways to introduce your sources/ direct quotations. , paraphrases, and summaries, . an important element to . integrating/incorporating . quotes . into a Literary Analysis Paper. GUIDELINES. But why?. As you choose quotations for a literary analysis, remember the purpose of quoting. Your paper develops . an argument . about what the author of the text is doing--how the text "works. YOUR. life?. “It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.” . –J. K. Rowling. 2 quotations – identify techniques and explain the closeness and intimacy of the relationship. Quote an example of what the second best bed is like and quote an example of the best bed – explain how this is a contrast and what it tells us. Why use a quote?. Types of writing to use quotes. Always ICE it. Introducing quotes. Citing quotes. Explaining quotes. ”. “. What is a QUOTE?. The word . quote. . is short for . quotation. A . quotation.