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The Quote Sandwich
The Quote Sandwich
Inserting quotations in your paper is an important step in writing a research paper.
Quoting effectively is important because the right quotation presented properly can add spice, interest, thought, effectiveness, support, and respect to your writing.
Quoting ineffectively makes your writing look like an amateur attempt padded by random comments from strangers.
Using Quotes Seamlessly
Watch the Colbert Report - Integrating Quotes video below.
Stephen Colbert expertly quotes from and comments on a memo that Wheat Thins sent him. Pay attention to how smoothly he integrates the quotes from the memo. Notice how he leads into a quote, how much of the quote he uses, and then how he continues after the quote.
The Quote Sandwich
The Quote Sandwich
First, remember that any paper that you write should be guided by your ideas and organization; the borrowed material is there to help support and lend credibility to any points you want to make. Do not let someone else's ideas run your paper.
Along with putting a quote in quotation marks, you must also include two other essential pieces when using a quote: introduction and explanation.
To ensure that your reader fully understands how the quote supports the topic, you must smoothly incorporate the quote into your paragraph; otherwise, your reader may be left unsure of why you used the quote.
The Quote Sandwich is a method that aides you in effectively adding quotes. See below for a further explanation and to watch the video.
Quotation Sandwich.mp4Introducing Quotes
To guarantee that your reader clearly follows your writing, you should introduce your quotes with a signal phrase and/or a reporting verb rather than just plopping the quote down. If you add in the quote without any sort of introduction, your reader may not understand how the quote connects to your paragraph, even if it makes sense to you.
Below are examples of signal phrases and reporting verbs that you can use to introduce your quotes.
For example:
Malcolm X writes, “I was so fascinated that I went on- I copied the dictionary’s next page. And the same experience came when I studied that. With every succeeding page, I also learned of people and places and events from history” (89).
Elizabeth Wong comments “the language was a source of embarrassment. More times than not, I had tried to dissociate myself from the nagging, loud voice that followed me wherever I wandered in the nearby American supermarket outside Chinatown” (291).
EVERY quote must include the author’s name. The name can be in the introduction (as in the examples above) or included with the page number (Wong 291).
If there is no author available for a source, use the article title.
If the quote came from a book, it must also include a page number.
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