1. READING COMPREHENSION III
Quotation
Presented by:
Rizal Rulloh , Maisarah Odie Fauziah, and Nadiah Septiyani
English Education Department
Muhammadiyah University of Jakarta
2013-2014
2. Quotation is a copy of the sentence or even a
paragraph in the form of opinion or statement of a
person such as authors, famous people, experts in a
particular field, both contained in books, journals,
articles, as well as those contained in the print and
electronic media.
Quotation
3. In line with Wikipedia (2013), states that “quotation is
the repetition of one expression as part of another
one, particularly when the quoted expression is well-
known or explicitly attributed by citation to its
original source, and it is indicated by
(punctuated with) quotation marks.”
4. direct quotation
In a direct quotation, another person’s exact words are
repeated and are enclosed in quotation marks.
indirect quotation.
In an indirect quotation, the speaker’s words are
reported without quotation marks.
Kind of Quotations
5. Reporting verb and phrases are used to introduce a
quotation or other borrowed information (such as
statistics). Some of the more common reporting
terms are as follows:
Direct Quotation
according to insist report suggest
claim maintain say write
declare mention state
6. Quotation marks are always used in pairs.
According to sports Illustrated, “The use of steroids̶ ̶ and other,
more exotic substances such as human growth hormone (hGH)̶ ̶̶
has spread to almost every sport, from major league baseball to
college basketball to high school football.”
“The use of steroids̶ ̶ and other, more exotic substances such as
human growth hormone (hGH)̶ ̶̶ has spread to almost every sport,
from major league baseball to college basketball to high school
football,” according to sports Illustrated.
In general purposes, the rules for
punctuating direct quotation as follows:
continue
7. Capitalize the first word of quotation as well as the first word
of the sentence.
Dr. Donald Catlin, director of a drug-testing lab at UCLA,
stated, “The sophisticated athlete who wants to take drugs
has switched to things we can’t test for.”
8. If we break a quotation into two parts, enclose both parts in
quotation marks and separates the parts with commas.
Capitalize only the first word of the sentence.
“The use of steroids̶ ̶ and other, more exotic substances
such as human growth hormone (hGH)̶ ̶̶ has spread,”
according to sports Illustrated, “to almost every sport,
from major league baseball to college basketball to high
school football.”
9. If we omit part of a direct quotation, use an ellipsis
(…)
According to sports Illustrated, “The use of steroids̶
… has spread to almost every sport, from major
league baseball to college basketball to high school
football.”
10. If we have a good reason to add words of our own to the
original, put brackets [ ] around the words we have added.
Commenting on the difficulty of detecting drug use among
Olympic athletes, the director of drug testing for the U.S.
Olympic Committee at the 1984 and 1988 games declared,
“The testers know that the [drug] gurus are smarter than
they are.”
11. Discussing specific arguments or ideas
Giving added emphasis to a particularly authoritative
source on our topic
Analyzing how others use language
Spicing up your prose
Using Quotation
12. In general, some students just leave quotation as a
sentences unto themselves, although they have
provided some words relationship for quotation, but
it look like a quote standing alone and it disrupt our
flow. Example:
Hamlet denies Rosencrantz’s claim that
thwarted ambition caused his depression. “I
could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself
a king of infinite space” (Hamlet 2.2.).
13. Lead into the quotation with a colon.
Introduce or conclude the quotation by attributing it to the
speaker. If our attribution precedes the quotation, we will
need to use a comma after the verb.
Interrupt the quotation with an attribution to the speaker.
Again, you will need to use a comma after the verb, as well
as a comma leading into the attribution.
Use the words of the quotation grammatically within our
own sentence.
Several ways to combine a quotation
with sentence more smoothly.
14. Consider quoting a passage from one of your sources if any
of the following conditions holds:
1. The language of the passage is particularly elegant
or powerful or memorable.
2. You wish to confirm the credibility of your argument
by enlisting the support of an authority on your
topic.
3. The passage is worthy of further analysis. 4. You
wish to argue with someone else’s position in
considerable detail.
How much should we quote?
15. References
Oshima, Alice and Ann Hogue. Writing Academic English. New York:
Addison Wesley Longman, 1999. 3rd ed. 88-83. Print.
Turabian, Kate L., Grossman, John., and Alice Bennett. A Manual for
Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations. USA: The University of
Chicago, 1996. 6th ed. Print.
UC Writing Centre. Using Quotations, 2013. Web. 4 December 2013.
UNC College of Arts and Sciences. The Writing Center, 2013. Web. 4
December 2013.
