VI. Using Quotations

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VI. Using Quotations

• And Incorporating Sources without Plagiarism

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Table of Contents

• Defining Plagiarism 3-4
• More Information about Plagiarism 5
• Three Steps to Using Quotations 7-9
• Signal Words 10
• Examples 11
• Signal Phrases to Introduce Quotations 12
• Short vs. Long Quotations 13-14
• Avoiding Dropped Quotations 15-16
• Direct Quotation vs. Indirect Quotation 17
• Sallys Next Step Final Draft Unit VII

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Wow! I have to learn more about what plagiarism
is and how to avoid it!
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Definition of Plagiarism

• Plagiarism is defined as the act of taking
  someone elses words, opinions, or ideas and
  claiming them as ones own (43).
• Instances when a student
• Knowingly represents the work of others as
  his/her own
• Represents previously completed academic work as
  current

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More Examples of Plagiarism

• Submits a paper or other academic work for credit
  which includes words, ideas, data or creative
  work of others without acknowledging the source.
• Uses another authors exact words without
  enclosing them in quotation marks and citing them
  appropriately
• Paraphrases or summarizes another authors words
  without citing the source appropriately.

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Plagiarism Links

• http//plagiarism.org/research_site/e_what_is_plag
  iarism.html
• Turnitin.com at http//www.turnitin.com/

Students have to check their papers carefully to
avoid plagiarism!
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How can I find out how to use my source materials
and cite them correctly in MLA style?
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Three Steps to Using Quotations

• Introduce
• Cite
• Analyze

What does introducing, citing, and analyzing look
like?
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How to Introduce, Cite, and Analyze
Introduce
Elaine Showalter would disagree with the
interpretation of the demonized baby that poses a
threat to the mother using a feminist approach,
she emphasizes the social and economic conditions
that bind women and drive them into insanity.
According to her, the narrator in The Yellow
Wallpaper is a woman driven mad by her enforced
confinement and passivity whereas the rest cure
is a sinister parody of idealized Victorian
femininity inertia, privatization, narcissism,
dependency. In particular, the weight gain that
was considered an essential part of the cure was
a kind of pseudo-pregnancy (247). The narrator
is on the brink of insanity not because of her
own weakness of any kind, but because she is
driven into insanity by unreasonable and unfair
expectations.
Cite

Analyze
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Signal Words to Use
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Examples

• Showalter emphasizes the social and economic
  conditions that bind women and drive them into
  insanity (247).
• Paula A. Treichler, on the other hand, explains
  that Gilman skillfully uses the wallpaper as a
  metaphor for womens discourse (188).
• Treichler observes that
• Deborah Thomas notes that in Charlotte Gilmans
  view, women were constricted to the set
  parameters that men determined. . .and
  conditioned to accept these boundaries and remain
  in place, in the private sphere.

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Useful Phrases to Introduce a Quote or Paraphrase

• Showalter argues that
• Showalter points out that
• Showalter emphasizes that
• Showalter interprets ___ as
• Showalter describes ___ as
• According to Showalter,
• In Showalter's words,
• In Showalter's view,

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How do I know the difference between a long vs. a
short quotation?
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Short vs. Long Quotations
A quotation is long if it is more than four
lines.
Whereas the wallpaper can be interpreted as
a reflection of the narrators individual
struggle, the wallpaper pattern can also be seen
as the pattern of the social and economic
dependence of women, or even as prison bars that
confine women to the domestic sphere. Paula A.
Treichler views the woman in the wallpaper as a
slave in the domestic sphere. She argues that
the yellow wallpaper represents. . . the
pattern of social and economic dependence which
reduces women to domestic slavery. . . all women
(190).
The narrator writes about her discovery
that not one but many women are hidden behind the
pattern Through watching so much at night, when
it changes so, I have finally found out. The
front pattern does move--and no wonder! The woman
behind shakes it! Sometimes I think there are a
great many women behind, and sometimes only one
and she crawls around fast, and her crawling
shakes it all over. (Gilman, Yellow 16)
Notice difference in period placement between
short and long quotations.
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What is a dropped quotation?
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Avoid Dropped Quotations
I never saw a worse paper in my life. One of
those sprawling, flamboyant patterns committing
every artistic sin (Gilman, Yellow 5).
The narrator asserts, I never saw a worse paper
in my life. One of those sprawling, flamboyant
patterns committing every artistic sin (Gilman,
Yellow 5).
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Direct Quotation vs. Indirect Quotation
(Paraphrase)
Direct Quotation
The wallpaper is dull and ugly, but the narrator
watches it closely for extended periods of time.
The unruly pattern reflects the narrators own
confused mental state as she follows its
unpredictable paths that suddenly come to
illogical endings. (Gilman,Yellow 5).
The narrator states, It is dull enough to
confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough
to constantly irritate and provoke study, and
when you follow the lame uncertain curves for a
little distance they suddenly commit
suicide-plunge off at outrageous angles, destroy
themselves in unheard of contradictions (Gilman,
Yellow 5).
Indirect Quotation
Indirect quotations (paraphrases) must be cited!
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Hooray! I know how to use my sources! Now its
time to write the final draft!