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

2. 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: My friend Bob says, “The safety corridor is a huge improvement in terms of saving lives.”

3. 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: Bob also argues that “the old speed limit was particularly dangerous because of traffic crossing 101 at Indianola and other points.”

4. Weak vs. Strong
Really good embedded quotes work well within the context of your own ideas. They sound like they could be your own words.
Weak = The author says, “Genetic engineering is bad.”
Strong = The benefits of genetic engineering do not outweigh “the moral and ethical dilemma created by the blatant manipulation of life” (Mehrens, “Genetics”)

5. Grammar Quotes must be used in grammatically accurate sentences.
The author disagrees “genetic engineering is the best thing there ever was” (Cite 22).
WRONG
The author disagrees, saying that “genetic engineering is the best thing there ever was” (Cite 22).
RIGHT

6. Identifying Sources
One way to identify a source in your text is simply identify it by using a phrase, such as “According to”:
Example: According to an article in the Times Standard, “Bugs fly,”
Remember, if you use the source word-for-word, you have to put quotes around the language.

7. You may also use internal citations to identify sources.
Example: The ethical issue of genetic engineering is “nondescript and difficult to discuss” (Mehrens 47).

8. Literary Present Tense
When you refer to a text, you have to write about it in the present tense:
Example: J.T. Gatto writes that “I don’t teach English.” (Note: it’s “writes” not “wrote”, even though he did it in the past tense. The reason we do this is because texts never age, authors do.

9. Authors Don’t “Say”
Remember, authors aren’t talking, so they don’t “say”; they “write”, “argue”, “note”, “describe”, “posit”, “speculate”, etc.

10. Identifying Titles
Titles of other people’s essay go in quotes: “The Seven-Lesson Schoolteacher”. (Your own title does not go in quotes.)
Titles of books are italicized, as are names of newspapers, films, CDs.
In general, a good rule of thumb for this is that the smaller thing goes in quotes (such as a song title), but the larger thing it comes from is italicized, such as the CD.

11. Practice
You are writing an essay over whether you think war can ever be eradicated from our world.
“Sigmund Freud divided the forces in human nature between the Eros instinct, the impulse within us that propels us to become close to others, to preserve and conserve, and the Thanatos, or death instinct, the impulse that works towards the annihilation of all living things, including ourselves. For Freud these forces were in eternal conflict. He was pessimistic about ever eradicating war. All human history, he argued, is a tug-of-war between these two instincts.” – Chris Hedges, “Eros and Thanatos”
1) Paraphrase the information above.
2) Use a portion of the quoted passage as support for your argument, embedding the quote properly in a grammatically correct, appropriately cited sentence.