Integrating+Quotations

Integrating Quotations
 * An essay must be your writing and your ideas. But using passages from the text can strengthen your argument. They can:
 * prove you’re correct.
 * to give an example of your idea.
 * to show how you came to your conclusion.
 * When writing an essay, don’t use a quotation in the introduction.
 * In the body of the essay, after a topic sentence, use passages from the text to support your position.
 * Your citation (passage quotation) must start with **your** words. The words from the text must be part of your sentence.
 * Ex.: George gets mad at Lennie, but he often regrets it, looking “ashamedly at the flames”(11).
 * Starts with a signal phrase (your words) leading in to words from the book.
 * Words from the text are put in quotation marks.
 * If the passage ends in a question mark or exclamation point, put that inside the quotation marks and a period after the page number.
 * He said, “By golly, you’re right!”(427).
 * If you only want to use the beginning and ending words of a passage, put an ellipsis ( . . . ) where the missing words belong.