Citing Quotes Activity

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Citing Quotes Activity

• 9th Grade English/Language Arts
• MLA Style

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The Basics

• When you quote a line out of a book using MLA
  Style, you must put the QUOTE in quotation marks
  WITHOUT punctuation.
• Directly following the quote, put the authors
  last name and page number you found the quote on
  in parenthesis.
• Put the correct punctuation for the quote after
  the parenthesis.

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Example 1

• The Scarlet letter ceased to be a stigma which
  attracted scorn and bitterness (Hawthorne 147).

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Quoting using Lead-Ins

• Use the authors last name in the lead-in to the
  quote at the beginning of the sentence.
• Hawthorne writes, The scarlet letter ceased to
  be a stigma which attracted scorn and bitterness
  (1470).
• If you use the authors name as a lead-in, DONT
  put the name in parenthesis with the page number.

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Quotes using only 1 source

• Dont need the authors last name cited with the
  page number in parenthesis
• ONLY need the page number
• But Hester, the man lives who has wronged us
  both (1372)!

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Quotes LONGER than 4 Lines

• Start the quotation on a new line
• Indent it 1 inch from the left margin
• DONT use quotation marks
• The parenthetical citation comes AFTER the
  closing punctuation mark.
• You still need to INTRODUCE the quote

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LONG Quote Example

• Hawthorne explores the theme of truth within
  oneself through Hesters decision to stay in New
  England
• Here had been her sin here, her sorrow and
  here was yet to be her penitence. She had
  returned, therefore, and resumed, - resumed the
  symbol of which we have related so dark a tale.
  Never afterwards did it quit her bosom. (1473)
• REMEMBER if using more than one source, you
  would use this (Hawthorne 1473)

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Quote Activity

• Cite the following quote using one of the methods
  we have went over today.
• The scarlet letter had not done its office.

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Things to note

• The placement of the parenthesis and what
  information is contained in them
• The scarlet letter had not done its office
• (Hawthorne 1489).

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Credits

• htpp//www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/cite5.html
• Microsoft PowerPoint Clip Art
• Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter.
  The Norton Anthology of American Literature.
  Vol. B. 6th Edition. W.W. Norton and Company
  New York, New York. 1998.