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Quote Weaving 101

Quote Weaving 101. The Odyssey. ALL QUOTES must be introduced in an essay. There are 2 ways to introduce quotes:. A true embedded quote in an essay is most impressive and demonstrates a more sophisticated strategy. You can incorporate a quote into a sentence that you have already begun.

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Quote Weaving 101

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  1. Quote Weaving 101 The Odyssey

  2. ALL QUOTES must be introduced in an essay. There are 2 ways to introduce quotes: • A true embedded quote in an essay is most impressive and demonstrates a more sophisticated strategy. • You can incorporate a quote into a sentence that you have already begun.

  3. True Embedded Quote • Begin a sentence with your words, then embed a quote into the sentence, and finish it with your words: • Steinbeck revealed “a dread of west and a love of east” in many of his works (1).

  4. Steinbeck revealed “a dread of west and a love of east” in many of his works (1). • Notice the lack of punctuation before the quote and a lack of capitalization at the beginning of the quote. • If you have to change the form of a word to make it fit grammatically in a sentence, place brackets around the change. Do not leave the original word in the sentence. • YOU begin the sentence, and then start the quote when you need to. No ellipsis (…) needed if you chop off words at the beginning of the quote. However, after you have started your quote, you must use an ellipsis to indicate missing words or phrases in the middle of the quote.

  5. There are four ways to incorporate a quote into a sentence that you have already begun: • You can weave the quote together with your own words. • In The Odyssey, dawn is personified as “showing her rosy fingers through the early mists” (Homer 15). • In The Odyssey, dawn is personified as having “rosy fingers” (Homer 15).

  6. You can use he/she says (but you must include about what!) and a comma: • Homer personified dawn when he says, “dawn came, showing her rosy fingers through the early mists” (Homer 15). • Menelaos sees the similarities between Telemachus and Odysseus when he says, “that man had feet just like that and hands just like that” (Homer 44).

  7. You can use a colon, but the sentence before must be a complete, independent clause that can stand on its own. • Menelaos recognizes Telemachos as Odysseus’ son by his physical features: “that man had feet just like that and hands just like that . . . “ (Homer 44). • Calypso is jealous of Odysseus’ love for Penelope: “Is she prettier than me? I think not” (Homer 66).

  8. You can use the author’s name to introduce the quote along with a comma. Note: When you use the author’s name in the sentence, you do not need to include it the citation. • Homer reveals how badly Calypso wants Odysseus to stay when he writes, “stay where you are and keep this home with me, and be immortal” (66). • Homer shows how much Telemachos looks like his father when he writes, “this young man looks exactly like the son of Odysseus” (44).

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