Integrating Quotations NEVER just drop a quoted passage into your paper. NEVER just drop a quoted passage into your paper. There are FOUR main ways to integrate quotations. There are FOUR main ways to integrate quotations. (tips to excelling on your (tips to excelling on your next writing prompt) next writing prompt)

1. Introduce the quotation by writing a FULL sentence and a COLON. 1. Introduce the quotation by writing a FULL sentence and a COLON. The quotation that follows should also be a full sentence. Bob’s description of Madge emphasizes her fake appearance: “She was a peroxide blonde with a large-featured, overly made-up face, and she had a large, bright-painted, fleshy mouth” (Abbot 21). Bob’s description of Madge emphasizes her fake appearance: “She was a peroxide blonde with a large-featured, overly made-up face, and she had a large, bright-painted, fleshy mouth” (Abbot 21). Richard Wright explains his reasons for writing: “I was striving for a level of expression that matched those of the novels I read” (135). Richard Wright explains his reasons for writing: “I was striving for a level of expression that matched those of the novels I read” (135).

2. Introduce the quotation by using intro/explanatory PHRASE ending in a VERB and a COMMA. 2. Introduce the quotation by using intro/explanatory PHRASE ending in a VERB and a COMMA. To describe his childlike consciousness, Wright explains, “Each event spoke with a cryptic tongue. And the moments of living slowly revealed their coded meanings” (79). To describe his childlike consciousness, Wright explains, “Each event spoke with a cryptic tongue. And the moments of living slowly revealed their coded meanings” (79). After going to Memphis and boarding with Mrs. Moss, Wright wonders, “Was it wise to remain here with a seventeen-year-old girl eager for marriage and a mother equally anxious to have her marry me?” (204). After going to Memphis and boarding with Mrs. Moss, Wright wonders, “Was it wise to remain here with a seventeen-year-old girl eager for marriage and a mother equally anxious to have her marry me?” (204).

3. Incorporate the quotation into your sentence WITHOUT any punctuation. 3. Incorporate the quotation into your sentence WITHOUT any punctuation. Often the word THAT will precede quote. As Bob realizes he has been swindled, he hopes he“will one day be able to exact revenge on Mr. Big ” (Abbot 119). As Bob realizes he has been swindled, he hopes he“will one day be able to exact revenge on Mr. Big ” (Abbot 119). Bob appraises Mrs. Harrison derisively, stating that “she looked so complacent, sitting there in her two-hundred dollar chair... bought with dough her husband had made overcharging poor hard-working colored people for his incompetent services, that I had a crazy impulse to needle her”(Abbot 37). Bob appraises Mrs. Harrison derisively, stating that “she looked so complacent, sitting there in her two-hundred dollar chair... bought with dough her husband had made overcharging poor hard-working colored people for his incompetent services, that I had a crazy impulse to needle her”(Abbot 37).

4. Use SHORT passages from text— only a FEW WORDS—and embed them in your sentence. Thoreau argues that people blindly accept “shams and delusions” as the “soundest truths,” while regarding reality as “fabulous” (83). Although Thoreau “drink[s] at” the stream of Time, he can “detect how shallow it is” (55).

Block a quotation if it is FOUR lines or longer. Indent the quotation one half of an inch on both sides, and punctuate it like the following example. Block a quotation if it is FOUR lines or longer. Indent the quotation one half of an inch on both sides, and punctuate it like the following example. Wright describes how his mother’s illness affected him: My mother’s suffering grew into a My mother’s suffering grew into a symbol in my mind, gathering to itself all the poverty, the ignorance, the helplessness; the painful, baffling, hunger-ridden days and hours; the restless moving, the futile seeking, the uncertainty, the fear, the dread. (Wright 29)

Ellipses Three periods, each having a space before and after Indicate writer has omitted words from original text Use to present more CONCISE quote The narrator shows her belief that landscape can affect the human when she says that “the sound of that tinkling brook... filled my heart with a strange melancholy” (Cho 107).

Brackets add words to a quote modify the verb clarify a pronoun The narrator is grateful for the separation that Nature gives him from the battle, and “conceive[s] Nature to be a woman with a deep aversion to tragedy” (Cho 100).

Citing Quotes in Your Text Author’s last name and page number(s) of quote must appear in the text: Author’s last name and page number(s) of quote must appear in the text: Romantic poetry is characterized by the “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” (Wordsworth 263). Wordsworth stated that Romantic poetry was marked by a “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” (263).