Q uotes E ffectively TLQC Transition Leadin Quote Commentary As he reads to Mrs Dubose Jem never loses his calm Scout observes that Through the weeks he had cultivated an expression of polite and detached interest which he would present to her in answer to her most bloodcurdlin ID: 464745
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Writing and Incorporating
Q
uotes
E
ffectivelySlide2
TLQC
Transition
Lead-in
Quote
Commentary
As he reads to Mrs. Dubose, Jem never loses his calm. Scout observes that “Through the weeks he had cultivated an expression of polite and detached interest, which he would present to her in answer to her most blood-curdling inventions.” Jem is taking his father’s advice and growing into the kind of man who will not get dragged down by other people’s anger. Slide3
Why use quotes?
A quote is the exact wording of a statement from a source.
Quotes make an essay more believable; they are evidence you can use to support your thesis.
Opinions supported by quoted text are evidence of good reading and thoughtful responses. Slide4
Direct Quotes
Incorporating
another person's exact words into your own
writing.
Use
direct quotations when the source material uses language that is particularly striking or notable. Do not rob such language of its power by altering
it.
Use
direct quotations when the author you are quoting has coined a term unique to her or his research and relevant within your own paper
.
Use quotation marks. Slide5
Indirect Quotes
Are not the author’s exact wording, but instead a paraphrasing or summarizing.
Use when you need to:
Summarize key incidents or details of the text.
Express a fact stated by the source.
Clarify a quote that is too long, confusing, or dull.
Condense the idea of several direct quotes.
Indirect quotes still require proper citations. You will be plagiarizing if you don’t cite.
Do not change the meaning of a quote when you paraphrase or summarize.
If a direct quote is very long or boring, use an indirect or partial quote instead. Slide6
Punctuation is IMPORTANT
To avoid confusing your readers, punctuate quotations correctly, and work them smoothly into your writing.
Punctuation
shows your readers:
which words are yours
which words you have quotedSlide7
How to Punctuate:
The author’s exact words go inside the quotation marks: “I am super, duper cool.”
Typically, the ending punctuation (period, exclamation point, question mark) will go inside the closing quotation marks, unless the quote is embedded within another sentence.
If a question relates to the sentence and not to the original quote, place it at the end of the sentence outside the quotation marks.
What kind of moron says, “I am super, duper cool”?Slide8
Punctuating
Quotations
Quoting a Sentence or Sentences
:
Gene begins to reveal his internal war with Finny when he says
,
“
What
was I doing up here anyway? Why did I let Finny talk me into stupid things like this
?”
(5
).
Notice how
my words
(
Gene begins to reveal his internal war with Finny when he says
) lead into the quote I have chosen to use.Slide9
Punctuating
Quotations
Quoting a Fragment
:
Jack is not able to kill the piglet during their first attempt at hunting for food
“
because
of the enormity of the knife descending and cutting into the living flesh; because of the unbearable
blood
”
(
31)
.
Again, notice how my words lead into the quote.Slide10
Quoting a Quotation
Use single quotation marks to indicate a quote inside of a quote:
Ron
said
,
“
Dad yelled,
‘No way!’
”
Golding writes,
“
Jack seized the conch.
‘Ralph’s right of course. There isn’t a snake-thing. But if there was a snake we’d hunt it and kill it.’
”
(36).Slide11
Quotations with Brief Insertions
To clarify or modify a phrase within a quote, insert brackets around your addition.
“Slowly,
[Bob]
reached for the meat cleaver.”
It
is evident that Finny believes in the war before his fall from the tree because he tells Gene,
“
I’m
wearing this
[his pink shirt]
as an emblem. We
haven’t
got a flag, we
can’t
float Old Glory proudly out the window. So
I’m
going to wear this, as an
emblem”
(11
).Slide12
Integrating Quotations
When you are using brief quotations, you must integrate them
—
Never just drop a quotation into your paper. Always introduce it and explain it with your own analysis/commentary.
You must:
work
them smoothly into your sentences
show
their relevance to your ideas.
Three main ways to introduce quotations: Slide13
1
st Method: As Part of Your Sentence
Incorporate the quotation into your sentence, punctuating it just as you would if it was not a quotation, adding quotation marks.
As Bob is being beaten, he hopes he
“will become unconscious but [he] can’t.”
Bob appraises Mrs. Harrison derisively, stating that
“she looked so complacent, sitting there in her two-hundred dollar chair […] bought with dough her husband had made overcharging poor hard-working colored people for his incompetent services, that I had a crazy impulse to needle her.”Slide14
Final Position
For several reasons
,
“
all
of them, all except Phineas, constructed at infinite cost to themselves these Maginot Lines against an enemy they thought they saw across the
frontier
.”
Beginning Position
“
Ralph
wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of
man’s
heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy
,
”
declares
Golding’s
narrator at the end of his novel.
Middle Position
In the same way William Golding’s novel has been considered a
“
body of work that speaks to the tragedy of the human condition
,
”
John Knowles
’
A Separate Peace
can be considered a work of literature that shines a light into the dark recesses of the human heart.Slide15
Interrupted
“As
flies to wanton boys, are we to the
gods,
”
proclaims
King Lear,
“
– They kill us for their sport."
This proclamation by an old king who has just realized that everything he once held
dear—territory
and
power–has
been stripped from him by his own flesh and blood– daughters Regan and
Goneril
–is
said to have inspired the title of William
Golding’s
Nobel Prize winning novel,
Lord of the Flies
.Slide16
2
nd Method: Attribution
Introduce the quote by using an attributive tag, such as
he writes
,
she claims
, etc.
To describe his childlike consciousness,
Wright explains
,
“Each event spoke with a cryptic tongue. And the moments of living slowly revealed their coded meanings.”
After going to Memphis and boarding with Mrs. Moss,
Wright wonders
,
“Was it wise to remain here with a seventeen-year-old girl eager for marriage and a mother equally anxious to have her marry me?”Slide17
3
rd Method: Introduce w/Colon
Introduce the quotation by writing a full sentence and colon to introduce the sentence, which should itself be a full sentence.
Bob’s description of Madge emphasizes her appearance:
“She was a peroxide blonde with a large-featured, overly made-up face, and she had a large, bright-painted, fleshy mouth.”
Richard Wright explains his reasons for writing:
“I was striving for a level of expression that marched those of the novels I read.” Slide18
Not Integrated
Brinker becomes disillusioned with the war, and Ralph becomes disillusioned with the glory of being chief
.
“
He
found himself understanding the
wearisomeness
of this life, where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of
one’s
walking life was spent watching
one’s
feet
”
(76). Slide19
Integrated
In the same way that Brinker becomes disillusioned with the war, Ralph begins to feel a sense of disillusionment toward the glory of being chief.
Golding’s
narrator begins to allude to
Ralph’s
waning enjoyment of being the leader on the island when he states,
“
he found himself understanding the
wearisomeness
of this life, where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of
one’s
walking life was spent watching
one’s feet”
(76). Slide20
Block Quotations
Block a quotation if it is 4 lines or longer.
Indent a quotation 10 spaces (tab x2) and punctuate as follows:
Wright describes how his mother’s illness affected him:
My mother’s suffering grew into a symbol in my mind, gathering to itself all the poverty, the ignorance, the helplessness; the painful, baffling, hunger-ridden days and hours; the restless moving, the futile seeking, the uncertainty, the fear, the dread. (Wright 29) Slide21
Works Cited
If the author is introduced at the beginning of the sentence:
According to researcher, Carl Smithton,
“
95% of all cats prefer love seats instead of bean bag chairs
”
(95).
If not,
Research has shown that
“
95% of all cats prefer love seats instead of bean bag chairs
”
(
Smithton
95
).Slide22
Titles
Use quotation marks to indicate the title of a shorter work, such as an article, essay, short story, poem, song, or speech.
In his essay, “Potatoes are Yummy,” Joe Smith argues that…
Use italics (or underline when handwriting) for longer works, such as a book, magazine, album, play, film, or epic poem.
In her novel,
Potatoes are
Yucky,
Ann Smith argues that…Slide23
Example
Ray Bradbury uses repetition to reinforce main ideas in his writing. For example, in the short story
“
All Summer in a Day,” Bradbury attempts to make the reader understand the magnitude of seven years worth of rain by writing that the children
“
glanced out at the world that was raining now and raining and raining steadily”
(56). This quote shows that while Bradbury knows his audience is familiar with rain, the concept of seven years of constant rain is so unimaginable that it must be repeated. It also emphasizes the continuous and monotonous nature of long and steady rainfalls.