4 ways to integrate quotes

[Pages:2]Four Easy Ways to Integrate Quotations Method #1 ? Use Signal Phrases (the following list is not exhaustive)

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#1 rule in writing about literature: USE THE LITERARY PRESENT TENSE. This means that you simply write about characters and events in the present tense because literature continually exists.

Examples:

In his essay about the values and rhythm of American life, Thoreau asks, "Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life?"

Albert Einstein stated, "Imagination is more important than knowledge." In his poem "Students," Tom Wayman writes, "The more you understand about what's occurring around you, the better prepared you are to deal with difficulties."

Your Turn: Integrate the following sample quote with a signal phrase and a comma, making one sentence.

The colonel and young woman argue. The colonel thinks men are stronger. "He has that ounce more of control than a woman has."

Method #2 ? Make the quotation a part of your own sentence without any punctuation between your own words and the words you are quoting.

Examples:

Holden gets frustrated and decides to leave, claiming that "people are always ruining things for you" (Salinger 88). Thomas Jefferson believed that "Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom."

Your Turn: Integrate the following sample quote:

The American knows about the snake in the room. "In India, milk in a bowl means only one thing. It is bait for a snake. He realizes there is a cobra in the room."

Method #3 ? Introduce the quotation with a complete sentence and a colon. Examples:

Thoreau ends his essay with a metaphor: "Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in." Steve Jobs shared in an interview: "My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better." When he was still playing hockey, Wayne Gretzky made an important observation: "I skate where the puck is going to be, not where it has been."

Your Turn: Use a colon after a complete sentence to introduce the quotation with the following example.

Simler describes how the scene sounded. "Then a crack echoed around the low hills" (Wing).

Method #4 ? Use short quotations ? only a few words ? as part of your own sentence. Examples:

When the child "ran for the house" indicates that the child is quite young, still needing the mother's presence for reassurance. Steve Jobs encouraged his employees to be "yardsticks of quality," because too many people are not used to an environment where excellence is expected.

Your Turn: Choose a few words to enclose in quotation marks in the sentence below.

We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled, but as candles to be lit. - - Robert H. Shaffer

Notes for the most important things that you learned...

Change this into the literary present: The American made a bet. He said that he would count to three hundred and the loser would pay 50 rupees. ___________________________________________________________________________________________

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