1. Direct Quotes Quotes must be part of your sentence
Signal phrase and a comma
Colon following an independent clause
Integrated into the natural structure of the sentence

2. Direct Quotes Introducing a Quote with a signal phrase and a comma:
Ryan Smith, a Los Angeles Times reporter,
suggests to his readers, “Lock everything every
time you leave the house” (43).

3. Direct Quotes Introducing a Quote with a signal phrase and a comma:
“As matters now stand,” asserts Duncan Turner,
“the outcome will be rather grim” (259).

4. Direct Quotes Introducing a Quote with a signal phrase and a comma:
“What do you think of first when you hear the
Term mixed marriage?” asks Jose Burciaga, a
distinguished publisher and writer.

5. Direct Quotes Introducing a Quote with a Colon:
Protection of white privilege is critical to patterns of
discrimination: “Whenever a number . . .” (Williams,
727).

6. Direct Quotes Introducing a Quote with a Colon:
With the recent school shootings, many are concerned with
gun laws: “Banning guns from schools seems the obvious
way to keep children safe” (Lott, 473)

7. Direct Quotes Integrated quotes:
Hermione Roddice is described in Lawrence’s
Women in Love as a “woman of the new school, full of
intellectuality and nerve-worn with consciousness”
(17).

8. Direct Quotes Integrated quotes:
More specifically, Wharton’s imagery of suffusing
brightness transforms Undine before her glass into
“some fabled creature whose home was in a beam of
light” (21).