Embedding Quotations 

Quote Integration:

• The signal phrase consists of your own words that signal to the reader that a quotation is coming.

• The quotation is what the source is saying, and they need to be placed in quotation marks 

• As for the citation,  you will need to add page numbers for prose; line numbers for poems; and Act, Scene, and Line numbers for plays inside of two parentheses.

NOTE:  When a quotation is followed by parentheses, final punctuation is removed from the end of the quotation (with the exception of question marks and exclamation marks found in the source) and your own punctuation follows the citation.

Example Quotation:

Cassius: You bear too stubborn and too strange a hand

Over your friend that loves you.

Acceptable Methods 

Run-in Quotation--The grammar of the quote blends with the grammar of your context.

EX—>  His concern is shown in the beginning of act one where Cassius states that Brutus “bear[s] too stubborn and too strange a hand / Over your friend that loves you” (1.2.35-36).  

Short Expression Quotation--context ends with a verb (states, says, claims,etc.) and is followed by a comma

EX—> His concern is shown at the beginning of act one when Cassius states,  “You bear too stubborn and too strange a hand / Over your friend that loves you” (1.2.35-36).

Formal introduction Quotation--uses a phrase such as "the following" or "in the following excerpt" follwed by a colon

EX—> At the beginning of act one, Cassius shows his concern when he states the following: “You bear too stubborn and too strange a hand / Over your friend that loves you” (1.2.35-36).

Unnaceptable Methods 

Two Sentence Quote--context sentence ends in a period, quote comes imediatly after, disconnecting the information.

EX—> At the beginning of act one Cassius talks about Brutus’ state of mind. “You bear too stubborn and too strange a hand / Over your friend that loves you” (1.2.35-36).

Quote Drop--Quote is placed in the text with no context prior to it, whcih provides no real assistance to your argument.

EX—> *quote is dropped randomly into text* “You bear too stubborn and too strange a hand / Over your friend that loves you” (1.2.35-36).