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To
To To
support my argument.
demonstrate my familiarity with the text.
An
embedded quote flows naturally into your own writing. When reading a well-embedded quote, it should sound like part of your own sentence.
dropped-in quote does not flow with the rest of the sentence. It sounds jarring and disrupts the sentence and paragraph.
Beneatha
is a character who believes in freedom of expression. She said this quote: People have to express themselves one way or another (Hansberry 48).
is a character who believes that people need to express themselves one way or another (Hansberry 48).
Beneatha
Holden
gets frustrated and decides to leave. People are always ruining things for you (Salinger 88).
gets frustrated and decides to leave, claiming that people are always ruining things (Salinger 88). gets frustrated and decides to leave. He claims that people are always ruining things (Salinger 88).
Holden
Holden
Capitalization
Leaving
The
quote is part of your sentence. Do not capitalize any word unless it would ordinarily be capitalized.
Holden gets frustrated and decides to leave, claiming that people are always ruining things (Salinger 88). not capitalize people even though in the original text it is the first word of the sentence.
Example:
Do
When
it is necessary to leave out a few words from the original text, use an ellipses () indicating where the words were skipped.
claims that people are ruining things (Salinger 88). use an ellipses when omitting words from the MIDDLE of the quote.
He
Only
Sometimes
She
Lead
Use
Explain
The
closing punctuation always goes at the very end of the sentence, i.e. after the parenthetical citation.
is a character who believes that people need to express themselves one way or another (Hansberry 48).
Beneatha
Avoid
Why?
The parenthetical citations co-ordinate with the works cited page included at the end of your paper.
Author
Human
Author
Human
NOT mentioned:
(Author page #)
Use
a shortened title of the work instead of an author name Place the title in quotation marks if it is a short work (such as an article) or italicize it if it's a longer work (e.g. plays, books, television shows, entire Web sites) and provide a page number.
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Include
in the text the first item that appears in the Work Cited entry that corresponds to the citation (e.g. author name, article name, website name, film name). Do not give paragraph numbers or page numbers
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