How to Integrate Quotations in our Writing

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How to Integrate Quotations in our Writing

• Some Notes, Sharing, and Practice

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Three Main Methods of Introducing a Direct
Quotation (direct means word-for-word from text)

• a. According to AUTHOR in SOURCE, DIRECT
  QUOTATION (PAGE NUMBER).
• b. AUTHOR, in SOURCE, suggests that DIRECT
  QUOTATION (PAGE NUMBER).
• c. In SOURCE, AUTHOR says, DIRECT QUOTATION
  (PAGE NUMBER).

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Partner PracticePassage 1

• As far as food issues, adolescents will have to
  be left to their own devices when away from the
  home environment. You can only hope that the
  lessons you have instilled from a young age will
  shine through, but adolescents will test the
  limits of eating. They may boast to their
  friends about how many candy bars or pancakes
  they ate at one sitting. The power of
  unsupervised eating is a limit that most
  adolescents try to test.
• From How to Get Kids to Eat Great Love It! By
  Christine Wood, M.D., page 147.

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Partner PracticePassage 2

• Although it is not entirely justified, the
  sharks reputation as a killer rivals that of the
  Orca. Whenever a real shark attack occurs, it
  makes such dramatic newscopy that practically
  everybody hears about it and most people believe,
  erroneously, that sharks attack all human beings
  on sight. The fact is that the number of shark
  attacks compared with the number of shark
  encounters is minute.
• From The Skin Divers Bible by Owen Lee, page
  84-85

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Partner PracticePassage 3

• Houses and apartments in San Jose, Costa Rica
  rent from about 200 a month and up. Suburban
  and country houses can rent for as little as 150
  a month. Luxury condominiums or estates can rent
  for 1000-1200 a month or more. Unfurnished
  usually means without stove or refrigerator as
  well as without furniture.
• From The New Key to Costa Rica by Beatrice Blake
  and Anne Becher, page 277.

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Alternatives to Says(because that gets boring!)

• Argues
• Asserts
• Concludes
• Contends
• Discusses
• Emphasizes
• Examines

• Explores
• Focuses on
• Has determined
• Highlights the fact that
• Maintains
• Mentions

• Notes
• Points out that
• Reports
• States
• Suggests

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Questions to Ponder(Take a few minutes to jot
the answers in your notes)

• In what ways can I apply what I just learned in
  my classes?
• Why do you think this knowledge is important?
• What is Mrs. Mags reasoning behind this lesson?
  Why teach it today?

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Independent Practice

• Read the article.
• Summarize the article in 5 sentences.
• Make 1 of 5 sentences a direct quote from the
  text.
• Introduce your quote with one of the three
  methods from your notes.
• YOU MAY NOT USE THE WORD SAYS. Refer to the
  alternative words in your notes.
• At the end of your 5 sentence summary, skip a
  line and rewrite your direct quote in the other
  two methods you didnt use.

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Four defining features of a summary

• Its short.
• It tells what is most important to the author
  (why was the piece written? What is the
  message?).
• It is written in your own words, not copied from
  the author.
• 4. It states the information someone unfamiliar
  with the reading would need to have in order to
  understand the authors main argument, central
  ideas, and the connection between them.

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How to Properly Write a Summary Review

• First sentence should include the authors
  credentials, the authors name, the genre, the
  title of the text, a verb other than says to
  introduce the main argument or claim.
• For example
• Economist and Professor Emeritus (authors
  credentials), Robert L. Heilbroner (authors
  first and last name), in his essay (genre) Dont
  Let Stereotypes Warp Your Judgment (title of
  text), suggests (verb) that while we often rely
  upon stereotypes to superficially define the
  world in which we live, we have the tools and
  resources to interrupt and change our stereotypes
  (main claim or argument from text).

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Summaries of texts should

• Avoid using the words the way, how, or
  about, as in This article is about implicit
  racism in American Literature. Instead, use the
  active voice Toni Morrison argues that racism
  is implicit in classic American literature.
• Be written in the present tense