1. Handling Quotes Fairly and Accurately Chapter 8 Quotes should not be used to convey facts. Quotes make a story lively, give it a human touch, let readers begin to understand what a source is like Capture good quotes and use lots of them but paraphrase when you simply convey the facts Examples page 191

2. Avoid repetition: do not present the same information in a paraphrase as a direct quote Partial Quotations: quote part of a sentence directly while paraphrasing the rest – The school needs a dress code, the principal said, because students are becoming “sloppy in dress and sloppy in thought.”

3. Avoid repetition: do not present the same information in a paraphrase as a direct quote Partial Quotations: quote part of a sentence directly while paraphrasing the rest – The school needs a dress code, the principal said, because students are becoming “sloppy in dress and sloppy in thought.”