1. Write Right! Excuse the lack of grammatical correctness. =)

2. Limit Direct Quotations (2 per page) Quote-heavy = too many quotes on the page –You are writing your paper, not your critics. –You must paraphrase, or put the research you’ve found into YOUR OWN WORDS.

3. Limit Direct Quotations (2 per page) “Sometimes, when their cousin came to visit, the three of them would climb into [a] black oak wardrobe, hand carved by Lewis and Warren’s grandfather, and sit in the dark while Lewis told stories” (Smith 965). Lewis’ fascination with closets and stories began as a child. Sitting inside the oaken darkness of his grandfather’s handmade wardrobe, the young writer would dream and create stories for his cousin and friends (Smith 965).

4. Limit Direct Quotations (2 per page) “Sometimes, when their cousin came to visit, the three of them would climb into [a] black oak wardrobe, hand carved by Lewis and Warren’s grandfather, and sit in the dark while Lewis told stories” (Smith 965). Lewis’ fascination with closets and stories began as a child. Sitting inside the oaken darkness of his grandfather’s handmade wardrobe, the young writer would dream and create stories for his cousin and friends (Smith 965).

5. Limit Direct Quotations (2 per page) “William Golding had a relatively isolated childhood” (Barrett 4). Golding’s parents were sheltering and overprotective of him (Barrett 4).

6. Limit Direct Quotations (2 per page) “Horror writer Stephen King based his 1983 novel Pet Sematary on ‘The Monkey’s Paw.’ Readers may want to compare its more expansive and more graphically explicit treatment with Jacobs’ concise, understated approach” (May 2721). Though short and to the point, Jacobs’ “Monkey’s Paw” is the inspiration for Stephen King’s Pet Sematary, which is a longer, more drawn out version (May 2721).

7. Quote Integration “Sometimes, when their cousin came to visit, the three of them would climb into [a] black oak wardrobe, hand carved by Lewis and Warren’s grandfather, and sit in the dark while Lewis told stories” (Smith 965). Lewis’ fascination with closets and stories began as a child. Sitting inside the oaken darkness of his grandfather’s handmade wardrobe, the young writer would dream and create stories for his cousin and friends (Smith 965).

8. Integrating Quotes (Nothing “Naked”) “Everything that goes up must come down.” This was said by Albert Einstein, and after all this so did many other scientists. When even Einstein himself deduced “everything that goes up must come down,” it is no wonder that the sci- fi novel The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Universe is based on this same principle.

9. Integrating Quotes (Nothing “Naked”) “Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do.” This loving quote is the reverse feeling in the short story “The Rocking Horse Winner”; it contradicts the way the mother feels about her son. Whoever said, “Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do” never met “Mother,” the cold, callous protagonist in D. H. Lawrence’s short story “The Rocking Horse Winner.”