Quoting Quoting Quoting

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Quoting Quoting Quoting

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  by Sarah LaDow

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• What is a quote?
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A quotation is when you integrate someone
elses direct words into your own writing.

• According to Mike Hoffman, the local
  meteorologist, It will be a blizzard.

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Why should I quote someone else if its my paper?

• As Ralph Waldo Emerson reflected, one rarely
  writes about ideas that no one has ever explored.
  it makes sense to build on that persons
  discoveries (qtd. In Spatt 65).

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When should I use a quotation?

• For strong support of your ideas
• When the language of the original source is
  extremely powerful
• When the language of the original cannot be
  stated any more clearly or concisely from the
  original source
• To analyze some one elses specific words
• To demonstrate that when you use certain words,
  they are not necessarily your own words

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WARNING

• It is best to quote sparinglyotherwise it will
  seem that you have little to say for yourself!
• Never quote back to back
• Quotations over four lines are treated differently

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Whats a quote? DROPPED
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Dropped quotations

• A dropped quotation looks like
• It would seem there will be a massive
  snowstorm.
• Who said this? Can we trust this?
• Dropped quotations add little support to arguments

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Integrated quotations

• Integrated quotations let your audience know
  where your quotation is coming from and who said
  it
• According to Mike Hoffman on WNDU news, there
  will be a massive snowstorm. Because of his
  warning, we were able to stock up at the store
  before we got snowed into the house.
• A fully integrated quotation is introduced
  and then the writer will make a comment upon the
  quotation before moving on. Why was this quote
  important? What does it mean for your writing?

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Accuracy Counts!

• Be sure to use the sources exact words when you
  quotedouble check either reread the sentence
  you are quoting or repeat it to the person you
  are quoting.

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The MLA

• Whenever you quote, paraphrase or summarize, you
  should be following the MLA guidelines of
  citation. If you don

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Works Cited

• Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of
  Research Papers. 5th ed. New York MLA, 1999.
• Spatt, Brenda. Writing From Sources. 6th
  ed. New York Bedford/ST. Martins, 2003.

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