Quote weaving and Conclusion

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Quality quotes and quote weaving
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Look at every detail

• Look at this quote and take notice of every
  detail
• Pallas Athena, harboring kindness for the hero,
  / drifted a heavy mist around him, shielding him
  / from any swaggering islander whod cross his
  path, / provoke him with taunts and search out
  who he was

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• Pallas Athena, harboring kindness for the hero,
  / drifted a heavy mist around him, shielding him
  / from any swaggering islander whod cross his
  path, / provoke him with taunts and search out
  who he was

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Nuts and Bolts

• For poetry
• Lines are represented with /
• for The Odyssey, use (book.lines) (Homer
  19.125-129)
• If a string of quotes all from the same source,
  drop the authors name. (22.128-130)
• For film and textbook, look up MLA Format
• LMC Website
• Google MLA citations
• MLA film citations
• MLA Multivolume book citations

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Quotes and citations (MLA)

• We use quotes to support our argument with solid
  evidence.
• A citation is a cross-reference. If you make an
  argument, your reader should be able to pick up
  the book you are citing and get more information.
  

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Quality versus Lame quotes

• Your quote is support for your analysis, for your
  argument. If your argument is the gods played a
  role in everyday life, you could use this
• Pallas Athena, harboring kindness for the hero,
  / drifted a heavy mist around him, shielding him
  / from any swaggering islander whod cross his
  path, / provoke him with taunts and search out
  who he was (Homer 3.16-19).
• Look at each word, literary device, etc.
  Anything at all that can help you argue your
  point.

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Three ways to weave a quote (MLA)

• Comma the most common.
• Proctor says, I think it is not easy to prove
  shes a fraud, and the town gone so silly
  (Miller 63).
• I think it is not easy to prove shes a fraud,
  Proctor says to Danforth, and the town gone so
  silly.
• Or it can be woven more fluently.
• While trying to wrestle with the chaos in Salem,
  Proctor argues, the town gone so silly (Miller
  63).

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Three ways to weave a quote

• Integrate the quote into your own sentence
• However, if the town continues on the path
  forged, the main role of government changes from
  that of the arbiter to that of the scourge of
  God (Miller 34).

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Three ways of weaving a quote

• Use a colon (probably the least common)
• Proctor believes he will not be believed in the
  court of Salem She told it to me in a room
  aloneI have no proof of it (Miller 53).

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Punctuation

• I have no proof for it (Miller 53).
• You were alone with her? (Miller 53).

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Evaluate your own chosen quotes

• Does it support the point you are making in the
  paragraph that is stated in the topic sentence?
• Does it support my chosen example? (Your quote
  should not be about apples if you are writing
  about oranges.)
• Is the quote interesting?
• Example of non-interesting quote Jane
  ran(Smith 2).
• Will I have something to explain about it in my
  analysis so I can demonstrate my HLT skills?
• Is it cited correctly?
• Is the citation punctuated correctly?
• Jane ran(Smith 2).

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Due dates

• Monday, Nov. 7
• Final draft due. Typed and complete. Incomplete
  or no draft will result in letter grade deduction
  from final essay.
• Must be in to turnitin.com by 1159 Tuesday
  night. Failure to turn in either of these will
  result in a ZERO / 100.