1. Hooks, Lead Ins, And Citations
Tucker, Spring 2017

2. Hooks!
Question:
What does it mean to sacrifice for your dreams? Should individuals push aside and ignore their family, morals, religion and laws in order to achieve their dream? This is a question posed in both Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, and in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Quote.
Albert Einstein once said, “To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.” But what happens when science tries to surpass God?

3. Hooks!
Anecdote.
Marie Curie, arguably the most famous female scientist in history because of her discovery of radium and polonium and her two Nobel prizes, is a perfect example of someone who died in order to advance science. Known for carrying test tubes of radium in her lab coat, Marie Curie died on July 4, 1934 of aplastic anemia, which is caused by prolonged exposure to radiation. Like Marie Curie, several literary characters are also willing to sacrifice everything in the name of science. Two of those figures are Victor Frankenstein, from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, and Dr. Henry Jekyll, from Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

4. Conclusion TIP!
If you start your paragraph with an interesting hook, revisit that hook in your concluding sentence.

5. The Lead-in… Integration of Quoted Material
Always use correct lead-ins for direct quotes
Never drop a quotation into a sentence or a paragraph without proper lead-in.

6. Styles of Lead-ins Somebody says lead in Punctuate as dialogue
Quote must be a complete sentence
Use a comma
Vary synonyms for “says”

7. Somebody Says
Jane Agee comments, “Many students who would not have attempted college seven years ago are now coming into state universities through junior colleges” (10).

8. Types of Lead-ins continued
Sentence:
Make sure both are complete, correct sentences
Begin quote with a capital letter
Use a colon to separate

9. Sentence:
Agee insists that English instruction on the college level will not improve until educators become realistic: “Public school teachers need to sit down and evaluate the situation” (12).

10. Types of Lead-ins continued
Blended
Make the quotation a grammatical part of your sentence
Do not use a comma or capital letter unless it would be called for by the structure of the sentence
Do not use ellipses at the beginning or end

11. Blended
State universities are now providing “special remedial programs” in which students who do not meet the “entrance requirements are admitted on probation” (Agee 13).

12. Citing in parentheses…
Example 1:
This comedy has been highly acclaimed by literary critics: “Twelfth Night is the most nearly perfect festive comedy that Shakespeare wrote” (Schwartz 509).

13. More citations…
•If no author or editor is given, use the title and page number(s). If there are no pages numbers, just the author’s last name.
Example 2:
Twelfth Night has more playfulness than any other of Shakespeare’s comedies (“Analyzing Humorous Plays” 6).

14. MLA Reminders Times New Roman font 12 point font Double spaced
1 inch margins
Page number in top right (header)
Last name followed by page number
Heading (first 4 lines of paper…NOT IN THE HEADER):
Name
Teacher
Class
Date

15. Novels vs. “Short stories” & “poems”
The novels, play and novellas we will read this semester all need to be Italicized every time they are mentioned in your paragraph/paper.
All articles, short stories and poems go in “QUOTATION MARKS.”