Integrating Quotes 1. Introduce the quotation with a complete sentence and a colon. 2. Use an introductory or explanatory phrase, but not a complete sentence, separated from the quotation with a comma. 3. Make the quotation a part of your own sentence without any punctuation between your own words and the words you are quoting. 4. Use short quotations--only a few words--as part of your own sentence.

Example—introducing a quote using a complete sentence and a colon In "Where I Lived, and What I Lived For," Thoreau states directly his purpose for going into the woods: "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."

Example—Introducing a quote using a fragment and a comma In "Where I Lived, and What I Lived For," Thoreau states directly his purpose for going into the woods when he says, "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."

Example--Make the quotation a part of your own sentence without any punctuation Thoreau suggests the consequences of making ourselves slaves to progress when he says that "We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us." Thoreau argues that "shams and delusions are esteemed for soundest truths, while reality is fabulous."

Example—Short quotations In "Where I Lived, and What I Lived For," Thoreau states that his retreat to the woods around Walden Pond was motivated by his desire "to live deliberately" and to face only "the essential facts of life."

MLA—Work Cited and Citations Author-page method of in-text citation = (Stevenson 36). The author's name may appear either in the sentence itself or in parentheses following the quotation or paraphrase, but the page number(s) should always appear in the parentheses, not in the text of your sentence For example: Wordsworth stated that Romantic poetry was marked by a "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" (263). Romantic poetry is characterized by the "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" (Wordsworth 263). Both citations in the examples above, (263) and (Wordsworth 263), tell readers that the information in the sentence can be located on page 263 of a work by an author named Wordsworth

MLA Work Cited Author Last Name, Author First Name. Title of Book. City of Publication, Publisher, Publication Date. *Make sure you use a hanging indent if the citation goes beyond one line.

Revision time/Conferences Bluetooth is on Work on English 3 assignments only I will call you back to conference about your work—be prepared to ask any questions you may have If you finish your revisions/edits you make work on reading from your Norton Anthology Read the following page ranges and annotate The Middle Ages (3-6) Anglo-Saxon Literature (6-10) The Middle Ages Texts and Contexts (26-28) Beowulf Background (36-38) Beowulf Background (39-41)