1. Embedding quotes

2. What does it mean to embed a quote?
Literature essays, and Yr 12 English essays require a specific way of using quotes.
I call it ‘embedding’
Working in short quotes into the sentence so that they are not self-aware.
… a seamless part of the natural fabric of the sentence.

3. What does it mean to embed a quote?
Working in short quotes into the sentence so that they are not self-aware.
Short quotes: use just one, two or three words. This may be different to what you are used to doing, but it is the most effective way once you get the hang of it.
NOT:
"Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags".  Jane thinks this as she looks out of the third story at the view from Thornfield, wishing she could see and interact with more of the world.

4. What does it mean to embed a quote?
Working in short quotes into the sentence so that they are not self-aware.
But this:
As we see the protagonist begin to wish for a wider world, the author’s views on the domestication of women become evident. Although they ‘feel just as men feel’ women are delegated to the ‘rigid…stagnation’ that is historically the domestic domain of women, and with it are sentenced to a life of things such as ‘making puddings, knitting stockings….and embroidering bags.” Here, the author is challenging the notion that women are ‘very calm generally’; she is suggesting that women have the same desires for exploration, self-fulfilment and ‘need [to] exercise their faculties’, as have men. Bronte establishes this proto-feminist discourse within the mind of the young Jane Eyre, who has been trapped in one form or another, and now seeks emancipation from the patriarchal institutionalisation which has held her captive.

5. What is a ‘self-aware’ quote?
Working in short quotes into the sentence so that they are not self-aware.
A self-aware quote is one that announces its arrival to the reader … it knows it’s coming… it’s self-aware.
Eg:
We also see this in the following quote, “they need exercise for their faculties”, which highlights to us the need for women to have equal rights.
Also, NEVER have a stand-alone quote, ie a quote that makes its appearance as a single whole sentence, with no information to sandwich it.
This is an utter no-no.

6. What does it mean to embed a quote?
Stay in control – YOU are the master of the language
Stay close to the text in front of you
Use metalanguage to aid sophistication
Avoid self-aware quotes if at all possible
Use a few short words… pick the best ones, not the lame ones
Natural part of the fabric of the sentence
Use the quote to discus the literature on 2 levels – micro and macro
Keep it beautiful