QUOTING THINGS CORRECTLY "Did you think to kill me? There's no flesh and blood within this cloak to...
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QUOTING THINGS CORRECTL Y "Did you think to kill me? There's no flesh and blood within this cloak to kill. There is only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof “ (V for Vendetta).
QUOTING THINGS CORRECTLY "Did you think to kill me? There's no flesh and blood within this cloak to kill. There is only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof
QUOTING THINGS CORRECTLY "Did you think to kill me? There's no
flesh and blood within this cloak to kill. There is only an idea.
Ideas are bulletproof (V for Vendetta).
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Introduction to Incorporating (working-in) Quotations
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A Couple of Preliminary Notes - Quotations are some of the most
important data you can have to support a claim. Remember to copy
wording and punctuation exactly as it appears in the source from
which you are taking it. - When students are told to find
quotations from a book, they sometimes think that they can only use
something that is already in quotation marks (dialogue). You can
actually use anything from a book, whether it be dialogue or
narration or some of both, that serves your purposes.
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Mr. Youmans wrote an email to me that says, You are so dum.
Soumhow would you interpret this? Any other way you can interpret
it? Mr. Youmans wrote an email to me that says, You are so dum
[sic]. Sic is written in italics and surrounded by brackets []. The
Latin verb sic ("thus"; in full: sic erat scriptum, "thus was it
written") added immediately after a quoted word or phrase (or a
longer piece of text), indicates that the quotation has been
transcribed exactly as found in the original source.
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Incorporating Quotations (Smoothly and Correctly) Method #1
Introduce a quotation that is a complete sentence with a complete
sentence of your own and a colon.
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Example: Katniss finds that Rue hasnt always eaten as well as
she would imagine she has: Oh, says Rue with a sigh. Ive never had
a whole leg to myself before (143). Example #2: Marvin told me
exactly what he thought about my haircut: That mullet makes you
look like you just stepped out of the 1980s.
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Why is it important to provide CONTEXT for your quotes? Look at
todays political ads? What could happen if you were having a
conversation with someone and they only repeated a specific thing
you said without providing context? Can you think of examples of
peoples words being taken out of context that were malicious,
confusing, or funny?
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Incorporating Quotations (Smoothly and Correctly) Method #2
Most of the time, you only need one set of quotation marks around a
quotation. When Nailer points out Nitas wealth, Pima responds,
Yeah, shes rich all right. But shes not crew (121).
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However, if you have more than one speaker in your quotation or
you want to quote both narration and dialogue, then you will need
to have a quotation within a quotation. To do this, put a normal
set of double quotation marks around the entire quotation and put
the inner quotation in single quotation marks. Example: Katniss
finds that Rue hasnt always eaten as well as she would imagine she
has: Oh, says Rue with a sigh. Ive never had a whole leg to myself
before (143). Example: Katniss and Peeta would like to avoid the
reaping if they could: We could do it, you know, Gale says quietly.
What? I ask. Leave the district. Run off. Live in the woods (43).
***By the way, if you are quoting dialogue, do NOT put each new
speaker in a new paragraph as you would if you were the author
writing the story.
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Note: avoidance is not always a bad thing. It is often easier
for you and for the reader if you avoid having a quotation in a
quotation. Katniss and Peeta would like to avoid the reaping if
they could: We could do it, you know, Gale says quietly. What? I
ask. Leave the district. Run off. Live in the woods (43). BECOMES:
Consider the last quotation within a quotation avoided in this way:
Katniss and Peeta would both like to avoid the reaping if they
could. This is seen when Gale says, We could do it, you know Leave
the district. Run off. Live in the woods (43).
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Make the quotation the ending of your own sentence without
using any punctuation between your own words and the words you are
quoting. Unlike method #2, you don't set these quotations off with
a verb like "says" or "exclaims" and a comma. Instead, you work it
into your sentence. Incorporating Quotations (Smoothly and
Correctly) Method #3
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Examples: The narrator lets the reader know his true motivation
for helping his brother when he confesses that When Doodle was five
years old, I was embarrassed at having a brother of that age who
couldnt walk, so I set out to teach him (318). * He observed that
Doodle seemed all head, with a tiny body which was red and
shriveled like an old mans (316). Katniss remembers how her family
had been "slowly starving to death" (27). When Katniss sees her
score, she thinks that "There must be a mistake" (108). Pima warns
Nailer that he shouldnt be fooled just because she looks so sweet"
(121). Further Explanation * Notice that in the first example the
word that replaces a comma. You usually have a choice, then, when
you begin a sentence with a phrase such as "that narrator says."
You either can add a comma after "says," or you can add the word
"that," with no comma.
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Incorporating Quotations (Smoothly and Correctly) Method #4 Use
very short quotations--only a few words--as part of your own
sentence. EXAMPLE: Mr. Kirk felt that Mr. Myers obsession with
kitties to be interesting, but I thought it was disturbing. What
kind of grown man refers to his cats as kitties? Mr. Myers found a
picture of Mr. Kirk in high school and said it was fascinating how
he avoided remaining single that whole six years of high
school.
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Examples: The narrators first impression of Doodle was that he
was a nice crazy, but he also felt that he was a disappointment
(316). The narrators love for his brother is felt when he describes
the rain falling on his lifeless body as heresy (323). Katniss
knows the winner's district will be "showered with gifts" (19).
Katniss has learned that it is smart to avoid talking about
"tricky" (6) topics that could get her and her family in trouble.
The Capitol wants the districts to regard the Hunger Games as a
"festivity" (19). It rather ironic that the "Girl who was on Fire"
(67) is pelted with fireballs.