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Quote Integration

Quote Integration. How to avoid “quote plopping.”. 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”. Choosing a good quotation.

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Quote Integration

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  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 two techniques: • Using dialogue tags • Weaving quotations into your sentences

  6. Using dialogue tags • Introduce your quotes by stating who is talking and how he/she is saying it. • Examples: • Jing-mei yells • 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 dialog 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 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. 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

  12. 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).

  13. 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).

  14. Quote Weaving • You can also “weave” quotes into an existing sentence. • What the message of the quote is • Use a colon after your words to introduce quote OR • Use your own sentence structure

  15. Own Structure • 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).

  16. Message of quote • 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).

  17. 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).

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