Presentation for Students

2.  Evidence! All arguments require support.
 In a research paper, research is necessary to back up
your thesis, because “[a]necdotes alone don’t prove
much” (Carr 228).
 Power! Good writers use pretty words, and a
scarce number of others’ pretty words are
helpful.
 Opening a speech with a common parable,
quoting MLK in a Civil Rights essay, etc.
 Regardless, quotes should always enhance
your own words and serve your own purpose.
Your paper is YOURS. Do not piggy back
solely on others’ ideas.

3.  Using specific words from the author.
 Citing a specific piece of research.
 Providing evidence for a point.
 Using an idea from an author.
 Paraphrasing can be useful for this, as well.

4.  Malcolm X felt free after starting to write
the dictionary. “You couldn’t have gotten me
out of books with a wedge.” After writing it
he discovered a love for reading.
 Alexie began reading Superman comics as a
kid. “My father loved books, and since I
loved my father with an aching devotion, I
decided to love books.”

5.  Quote sandwich:
Introduction of the Quote
The Juicy Quote
Explanation of quote
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6.  Introduction of the quote: Who said it? Why
did they say it?
 Mike Rose, “Blue-Collar Brilliance.”
 Quote: The actual words from the source.
 “My mother, Rose Meraglio Rose (Rosie), shaped her
adult identity as a waitress in coffee shops and family
restuarants.” Page 243.
 Explanation of quote: Of what significance is
this quote?
 Rose combines personal experience with a scholarly
voice.

7.  Rose writes, “My mother, Rose Meraglio Rose
(Rosie) shaped her adult identity in coffee
shops and family restaurants” (243). Rose
frames the structure of the text by
combining the personal, by naming his
mother, and the scholarly, by using the
phrase “shaped her adult identity” (243).

8. Take the following parts and put them
together to form a hearty sammich.
 Malcolm X’s copying of the dictionary
opened a new passion for reading in his
life.
 Malcolm X, “Coming to an Awareness of
Language.”
 “from then on until the time I left that
prison, in every free moment I had, if I was
not reading in the library, I was reading on
my bunk.” Page 69.

9.  In his essay, “Coming to an Awareness of
Language,” Malcolm X relays that “from then
on until the time that I left that prison, in
every free moment I had, if I was not reading
in the library, I was reading on my bunk”
(69). His copying of the dictionary led to a
love of reading that changed his life in and
out of prison.

10.  Quote: “My father loved books, and since I
loved my father with an aching devotion, I
decided to love books as well” (Alexie 78).
 Alexie’s love of reading started as an
emulation of his father, who was an avid
reader (78).

11.  Do not feel pressured to use entire
sentences. Short phrases here and there are
preferable to seven long sentences.
 The many examples clearly support his
conclusion that “analytic moments” are part of
many everyday routines of these occupations,
that they “can be cognitively rich” (254).
 Once again, make sure that you are using
quotes to support your words as opposed to
using the words of others to meet the page
requirement.

12.  Do not put punctuations within the quote.
Put them on the outside of the parenthetical
citation.
 Be judicious in your quote selection; be sure
your paper is composed of mostly your own
words, and that the quotes you do use are
essential to your paper.