Quote Integration

1. Quote Integration How to avoid “quote plopping.”

2. Choosing a good quotation • Trait: Lazy • Great quote: “But I dawdled over it, playing a few bars and then cheating, looking up to see what notes followed. I never really listened to what I was playing.”

3. Choosing a good quotation • Choose a quote that directly or indirectly displays the character’s motivations. • Make sure the quote allows you to make inferences and you’re able explain the quotation in detail.

4. Choosing a good quotation • Trait: Lazy • Bad quote: “’No! I won't!’ I screamed.”’

5. How to integrate quotations • There are 3 techniques: • Using dialogue tags • Weaving quotations into your sentences • State the message

6. Using dialogue tags • Introduce your quotes by stating who is talking and how he/she is saying it. • Examples: • The narrator admits • Roger exclaims • The little girl’s mother asks • Millicent says

7. Proper Punctuation • Be sure to properly use commas and quotation marks. • Commas follow the dialogue tag: • The narrator realizes,

8. Proper Punctuation • Quotation marks signal the start of a quotation. • The narrator realizes, “Pride is a…

9. Proper Punctuation • Include proper parenthetical citation at the end of the sentence. • The narrator realizes, “Pride is a terrible, wonderful thing” (Hurst 318).

10. Proper Punctuation • After an integrated quotation, include a citation. • (Author’s last name Page) • Period outside ( ). • (Hurst 318). • The narrator realizes, “Pride is a terrible, wonderful thing” (Hurst 318).

11. Proper Punctuation • The only time punctuation is at the end of the quote is when a question mark or an exclamation point is present: • When Susie exclaims, “I’m so glad you came!” • Susie asks, “Why didn’t you come?” (Ski 2).

12. Grammar • If the first word of the quotation starts a grammatically complete sentence, capitalize that first word. • When using just part of a sentence, do not capitalize the first word.

13. Capitalize • Academic writers at a large Southern university note, "The behavior, lifestyle, and values of minority students are likely to be substantially different from those of whites" (Jones 212).

14. No capitalization • Feeling overconfident for the recitalJing Mei “…dawdled over it, playing a few bars and then cheating, looking up to see what notes followed” (Tan 38).

15. Quote Weaving • Weave: You can also “weave” quotes into an existing sentence. • No need for punctuation.

16. Weave • Feeling overconfident for the recitalJing Mei “…dawdled over it, playing a few bars and then cheating, looking up to see what notes followed” (Tan 38).

17. Message of the Quotation • What is happening in this quote? • A complete sentence • Follow message with a colon : • In a practice session, Mrs. Woo provides encouragement for her daughter: “Of course, you can be prodigy too. You can be the best anything” (Tan 31).

18. Message of the Quotation • What the message of the quote is • Use a colon after your words to introduce the quote. • Your words must be a complete sentence (clause)

19. Own Structure • Minority students may not feel comfortable in a predominately white university because their “…behavior, lifestyle, and values . . . are likely to be substantially different from those of whites" (Jones 212).

20. Conclusions: • Quotations assist the reader in establishing and making stronger connections. • Quotations should be properly integrated and punctuated to be effective.

21. Blending Quotations Think of it like a sandwich… Step 1: Give context Step 2: Integrate quotation Step 3: Analyze the quotation

22. Embedding Quotations • Step One: Introduce the quotation • Ways to introduce the quotation: • Tell when it occurs in the novel • At the beginning of the story, Millicent is already planning to rebel by not joining the sorority. • Tell what is happening during this time • After getting a lesson on life from Miss Jones, Roger learns he must deal with growing up or he will fail.

23. Embedding Quotations • Step Two: Write out the quotation and blend • Example: Millicent unhappily explains the hazing process when she tells readers, “Worse than a loyalty test, this grilling over the coals. What’s it to prove anyway?” (Plath 141). • Cite the quotation at the end (Author’s Last Name Page Number). • Punctuation goes after the citation

24. Embedding Quotations • Step Three: Explain the quotation • Feeling overconfident for the recital, she tells readers, “I dawdled over it, playing a few bars and then cheating, looking up to see what notes followed” (Tan 37 – 38). Here, Jing-mei displays her laziness by not practicing the piano on purpose. She feels her mother pushes her too hard and has unrealistic dreams for her future. Jing-mei thwarts her mother’s ambitions, but in the end fails in both piano and her relationship with her mom.

25. Bad Examples of Integration • On page 20 it says, “Alice went down the rabbit hole.” • In the novel, “The Velveteen Rabbit then became real.” • In paragraph 5 it states, “Pinocchio's nose grew 5 inches.”