The document provides guidance on properly integrating quotations into writing. It explains that quotes should be "embedded" within sentences rather than standing alone. It offers several techniques for embedding quotes, such as introducing them with a colon or comma, making them part of the sentence without punctuation, or using very short quotes. It also stresses the importance of accuracy when quoting and indicating any changes with brackets.
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Quotation Integration:
Every time you quote something in your essay, you must use a signal phrase or sentence
somewhere in your sentence, either at the beginning, middle, or end. The signal text shows your
readers that the quoted information comes from a specific published source.
Remembering just a few simple rules can help you use the correct punctuation as you introduce
quotations. There are some exceptions to the rules below, but they should help you use the
correct punctuation with quotations most of the time.
Rule 1: Someone says, "quotation." If the word just before the quotation is a verb
indicating someone uttering the quoted words, use a comma. Examples include the words
"says," "said," "states," "asks," and "yells." But remember that there is no punctuation if
the word "that" comes just before the quotation, as in "the narrator says that."
Rule 2: Complete sentence: "quotation." If you use a complete sentence to introduce a
quotation, use a colon (:) just before the quotation.
Rule 3: Aim for always producing grammatical sentences. Use brackets to change
anything in a quotation in order to make it grammatical.
And remember that a semicolon (;) never is used to introduce quotations.
These rules oversimplify the use of punctuation with quotations, but applying just these few rules
should help you use the correct punctuation about 90 percent of time.
There are mainly three ways to integrate quotations.
1. Integrate quotations with a dependent clause and a comma.
2. Integrate quotations with a colon and an independent clause
3. Integrate quotations into your own sentence.
Below are explanations of how to use each of these methods.
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Rule 1: When you use an introductory or explanatory clause or phrase (i.e. not a complete
sentence) to integrate a quotation, separate the clause or phrase from the quotation with a
comma.
Most common example with a dependent clause and comma:
MLA:
Thoreau asks, "Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life?" (14).
Or
"Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life," Thoreau asks (14).
APA:
According to Jones (1998), "Students often had difficulty using APA style, especially when it
was their first time" (p. 199).
The dependent clauses here are ‘Thoreau asks’, ‘According to Jones’, and ‘She states’. When
you set off a quotation with a dependent clause, you must use a comma. You should use a
comma to separate your own words from the quotation when your introductory or explanatory
phrase ends with a verb such as "says," "said," "thinks," "believes," "pondered," "recalls,"
"questions," and "asks" (and many more). Change the punctuation as necessary in order to make
the quotation fit your sentence.
Another common example with a dependent phrase and comma:
According to Thoreau, "We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us" (10).
Or
"We do not ride on the rai.
5. They are all naked and ugly!! Quotations that are naked in your paper are just as ugly!!!
6. “Naked” Quotes You should never have a quotation standing alone as a complete sentence. We all know what happens when you let go of a helium balloon: . In a way, the same thing happens when you present a quotation that is standing all by itself in your writing, a quotation that is not "held down" by one of your own sentences. The quotation will seem from your own thoughts and from the flow of your sentences. it flies away disconnected
7. Example: In the sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” Jonathon Edwards claims that only those who have been born again as Christians will be saved because they have pleased God. “‘Tis nothing but his mere pleasure that keeps you from being this moment swallowed up in everlasting destruction.”
8. Correct: In the sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” Jonathon Edwards claims that only those who have been born again as Christians will be saved because “‘Tis nothing but his mere pleasure that keeps you from being this moment swallowed up in everlasting destruction.”
10. What is an Embedded Quote? An embedded quote is a quote that naturally within your writing; it is not just in. An embedded quote should sound like part of your own sentence. flows “dropped”
12. 1. Introduce the quotation with a complete sentence and a colon. Example: In "Where I Lived, and What I Lived For," Thoreau directly states his purpose for going into the woods: "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.”
13. Practice – find the complete sentence that introduces the quote and add the colon: Thoreau ends his essay with a metaphor"Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in."
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15. Practice – find the incomplete explanatory phrase and add the comma: "We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us" Thoreau says as he suggests the consequences of making ourselves slaves to "progress."
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18. Find the transition between the sentence and the quote: According to Thoreau, people are too often "thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on the rails."
19. 4. Use very short quotations--only a few words—as part of your own sentence. Example: In "Where I Lived, and What I Lived For," Thoreau states that his retreat to the woods around Walden Pond was motivated by his desire "to live deliberately" and to face only "the essential facts of life."
20. Highlight the short quotes: Although Thoreau "drink[s] at" the stream of Time, he can "detect how shallow it is."
21. Although Thoreau "drink[s] at" the stream of Time, he can "detect how shallow it is." Wait… What does this mean? “drink at” [s]
22. 5. Indicate Change and be accurate when quoting a piece of literature. If you change a word then you must indicate the change using a bracket. [ ] not parenthesis ( ) Ex: Although Thoreau "drink[s] at" the stream of Time, he can "detect how shallow it is.“ ‘Drink[s]’ came from ‘drink’ and an ‘s’ was added to reflect the verb-tense agreement.
23. Quote the author as accurately as possible. Do not use the quote in a way that changes it’s original meaning Ex: “I blest his Name that gave and took / That layd my goods now in the dust / Yea so it was, and so ‘twas just” Bradstreet is angry at God who “layd [her] goods now in the dust” so she curses his name.
24. Other words of advice Avoid long quotations. Avoid beginning and ending a paragraph with a quotation.
25. If you omit part of a quote, use “…” to indicate missing parts: “Your wickedness makes you as it were heavy as lead, and to tend downwards with great weight and pressure towards hell; and if God should let you go, you would immediately sink and swiftly descend and plunge into the bottomless gulf” “Your wickedness makes you as it were heavy as lead . . . and if God should let you go, you would immediately sink”
26. Quoting Poems Poem titles are enclosed in quotes. They are neither underlined nor italicized. Example: Anne Bradstreet’s “Upon the Burning of Our House” reflects the struggle between Spirit vs. Flesh.
27. Quoting Poems If you are quoting two-three lines of poetry, you will use a slash ( / ) with one space on each side. The lines of poetry are enclosed in quotes. Example: “In silent night when rest I took For sorrow neer I did not look I waken'd was with thundringnois” / /
28. Your turn! With your partner, create an embedded quote using the following: Bradstreet puts God before everything even though she loses all of her belongings. “I blest his Name that gave and took”