1. Using Quotations in Your Paper Mrs. Langevin English 2

2. Incorporating Quotations You need to give your audience signals when you repeat what someone else has said Quotations cannot stand alone as sentences Always elaborate on a quotation afterwards. – Paragraphs should never end in quotations You need to give your audience signals when you repeat what someone else has said Quotations cannot stand alone as sentences Always elaborate on a quotation afterwards. – Paragraphs should never end in quotations

3. Incorporating Quotations Weave quotation into your own sentence structure: George Wilson is “a blonde, spiritless man, anemic and faintly handsome” (Fitzgerald 29), the owner of a garage in the Valley of Ashes. Introduce quotation with an introductory sentence, followed by a colon: In a final conversation, Daisy cries out to Gatsby: “Oh, you want too much!” (Fitzgerald 139). Weave quotation into your own sentence structure: George Wilson is “a blonde, spiritless man, anemic and faintly handsome” (Fitzgerald 29), the owner of a garage in the Valley of Ashes. Introduce quotation with an introductory sentence, followed by a colon: In a final conversation, Daisy cries out to Gatsby: “Oh, you want too much!” (Fitzgerald 139).

4. Formatting Quotations Incorporate all quotations of four lines or less within a grammatically correct sentence, and place quotation inside quotation marks The quoted material may begin or end a sentence, or it may fall in the middle. You may divide the quotation with your own words. Do not change the capitalization, spelling, or interior punctuation. Incorporate all quotations of four lines or less within a grammatically correct sentence, and place quotation inside quotation marks The quoted material may begin or end a sentence, or it may fall in the middle. You may divide the quotation with your own words. Do not change the capitalization, spelling, or interior punctuation.

5. Formatting Quotations If you want to add words to the quotation you place [brackets] around the added words Place the page reference for the quotation within parentheses, following the quotation mark and before the final sentence punctuation. end of quotation” (Citation page #). If you want to add words to the quotation you place [brackets] around the added words Place the page reference for the quotation within parentheses, following the quotation mark and before the final sentence punctuation. end of quotation” (Citation page #).

6. Formatting Quotations When Nick Carraway first sees the owner of a garage in the Valley of Ashes, George Wilson is “wiping his hands on a piece of waste” and appears as “a blonde, spiritless man, anemic and faintly handsome” (Fitzgerald 29).