1. Blending Quotes

2. Blend quotes smoothly into your writing
Blend quotes smoothly into your writing. Do not just drop a quotation into your paper and hope it fits. An irrelevant quotation is worse than no quotation at all. You need to surround your quotation with your own words to give it a home.

3. Higher Order Thinking! The PURPOSE for Using Quotes in the First Place!
The purpose of integrating quotations into your writing is to:
Demonstrate that you have a firm grasp on your topic
Prove that your assertion is valid
Strengthen your credibility to the reader
Textual evidence can be incredibly powerful, but only if you EXPLICITLY explain to your reader how it supports your assertion. This is called commentary or analysis. You need to connect…the…dots! Don’t assume your readers will reach the conclusion you intend; make the connection for them.

4. Blending Quotes Seamlessly
According to some, dreams express “profound aspects of personality”(Foulkes 184). Conversely, some disagree….
According to Foulkes's study, dreams reveal “our inner most nature” as well as, “deeper aspects of our psychological components” ( ).
Baudelaire reveals his view of poets in the phrase, “this prince of clouds,” (4,2). The point is made evident that poets are akin to celestial beings who have a broader, more penetrating perspective of life.

5. Verbs you can use to introduce quotes are……
Argues Points out States
Says Believes Comments
Suggests Insists Observes
Thinks Claims Tells
Notes Explains Reveals
Concludes Implies Remarks

6. Examples Malcolm X suggests…….. This statement points out……..
Here the author notes……
It is suggested here…….
Marshall Cohen clearly argues and points out……
Stevie Wonder observes and comments……

7. Transitional phrase to introduce your commentary and analysis:
In view of this…..
With this in mind……
Clearly,………
Similarly….
Correspondingly…..
Indeed….

8. Transitions

9. Setting up an example or detail:
For example
As illustrated by
To clarify
For instance
Such as
As exemplified by
Accordingly
Specifically
As demonstrated by

10. Sequencing supporting ideas and commentary:
First  Second  Third  Last
One  Another  Also  Finally
In the first place  Furthermore  After that  Later on  At last
First  Next  Then  Last
One  Additionally  Equally important
To begin  Then  Consequently
At first  After that  Finally
One terrible  Worse  The worst
It started when  As a result  Then  Therefore
One way  Another option  A final method

11. Quantity Words (for Enumeration):
Numerous
A variety of
A vast amount of
A couple of
A plethora of
Some
A multitude of
Various
Several
A number of
Three/Four/Five…
A myriad of

12. Occasion / Position Words:
 If
Although
Throughout
Since
Before
Whenever
During
While
In order to
Whether
After
As long as
Until
Wherever
Even though

13. Concluding words: Clearly Ultimately In effect For these reasons
Altogether
Truly
In fact
Definitely
As a result
All in all
Thus
In summation
In conclusion
Overall
Certainly
Indeed
Consequently
Due to