Quotation

1. Quotation MLA Style

2. Why Quote? • To corroborate one’s argument. • To acknowledge someone’s contribution (Avoid plagiarism!)

3. Mechanical Errors • In Discovering the News, Michael Schudson describes this type of journalism as: “In this view, the newspaper acts as a guide to living not so much by providing facts as by selecting them and framing them.” (89) • In Discovering the News, Michael Schudson describes this type of journalism as: “In this view, the newspaper acts as a guide to living not so much by providing facts as by selecting them and framing them” (89).

4. Mechanical Errors • “The Victorian period is famously the Age of the Novel”, Shillingsburg claims (128). • “The effects of literacy,” Gee and Hayes argue, “depend on what people actually do with it” (22).

5. Other Errors • Missing quotation marks. • Incorrect/incomplete documentation. i.e. missing page number “Quote” (author’s last name page number).

6. Long Quotation OWL defines the format as: For quotations that extend to more than four lines of verse or prose, place quotations in a free-standing block of text and omit quotation marks. Start the quotation on a new line, with the entire quote indented one inch from the left margin; maintain double-spacing. Only indent the first line of the quotation by an additional quarter inch if you are citing multiple paragraphs. (OWL)

7. Integrating Quotation • Introduce your source and its author i.e.In “Anarchism and the Assassination of McKinley,” Sidney Fine describes the importance of the incident in the U.S. history: “More than any other event the Haymarket affair conditioned Americans to equate anarchism with violence and murder” (779).