Incorporating quotes  There are two ways to incorporate quotes: 1) Using a full quote 2) Using an embedded or integrated quote

Using a Full Quote  When you incorporate a full quote, you should introduce the quote and then follow with a full sentence of quoted material: Example: Updike begins his story by writing, “In walks these three girls in nothing but bathing suits” (340).

Using an Embedded Quote  When you incorporate an embedded or integrated quote, you should introduce the quote and continue that same sentence with a partial sentence of quoted material woven in: Example: Updike’s narrator Sammy notices that “old McMahon [the butcher is] patting his mouth … sizing up their joints” (341).

Ellipsis and Capitalization (MLA)  MLA states that you don’t need an ellipsis (the three dots) at the start of an embedded quote, nor do you need a comma, as you would with a full quote. You can start the quote with a lower case letter because it’s embedded into the larger sentence. Look at that example again: Example: Updike’s narrator Sammy notices that “old McMahon [the butcher is] patting his mouth … sizing up their joints” (341).  Note that the quote is embedded into a DC that starts with the word “that.”

Practice Makes Perfect: Your 10,000 Hour Beginning  Take this quote from Gladwell: “And what’s more, the people at the very top don’t work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder” (39).  Now strip out the phrase “And what’s more” and embed the quote with the sentence starter “Gladwell argues that”

And Another  Gladwell (choose your intro)  “Those three things—autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward—are, most people agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying” (149).