Thanks to Nancy Steele and Jeff Peterson for creating this sheet! Embedding Quotations ---Provide context for the quotation ---Embed the quotation in the idea or point that the q illustrates (in other words, don’t simply restate what the q says) ---Add a sentence following the q that is more specific—that further explains the significance of the q (but, if you can, without saying “this quotation shows”) Sample:
Sample with "downshifting" illustrated: The residents don’t know whether Boori Ma’s claims of having lived a luxurious life are truth or fiction.
As Dr. Peterson says, “unless you’re using parenthetical citation form, you should always place periods and commas inside quotation marks.” “Whenever you cite page numbers in parentheses,” he counsels, “you should place the period or comma outside the quotation itself, right after the parenthesis—as in this sentence” (45). |
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