Write Right!

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Write Right!

• Excuse the lack of grammatical correctness.
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Limit Direct Quotations (2 per page)

• Quote-heavy too many quotes on the page
• You are writing your paper, not your critics.
• You must paraphrase, or put the research youve
  found into YOUR OWN WORDS.

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Limit Direct Quotations (2 per page)

• Lewis fascination with closets and stories began
  as a child. Sitting inside the oaken darkness of
  his grandfathers handmade wardrobe, the young
  writer would dream and create stories for his
  cousin and friends (Smith 965).

• Sometimes, when their cousin came to visit, the
  three of them would climb into a black oak
  wardrobe, hand carved by Lewis and Warrens
  grandfather, and sit in the dark while Lewis told
  stories (Smith 965).

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Limit Direct Quotations (2 per page)

• Lewis fascination with closets and stories began
  as a child. Sitting inside the oaken darkness of
  his grandfathers handmade wardrobe, the young
  writer would dream and create stories for his
  cousin and friends (Smith 965).

• Sometimes, when their cousin came to visit, the
  three of them would climb into a black oak
  wardrobe, hand carved by Lewis and Warrens
  grandfather, and sit in the dark while Lewis told
  stories (Smith 965).

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Limit Direct Quotations (2 per page)

• Goldings parents were sheltering and
  overprotective of him (Barrett 4).

• William Golding had a relatively isolated
  childhood (Barrett 4).

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Limit Direct Quotations (2 per page)

• Though short and to the point, Jacobs Monkeys
  Paw is the inspiration for Stephen Kings Pet
  Sematary, which is a longer, more drawn out
  version (May 2721).

• Horror writer Stephen King based his 1983 novel
  Pet Sematary on The Monkeys Paw. Readers may
  want to compare its more expansive and more
  graphically explicit treatment with Jacobs
  concise, understated approach (May 2721).

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Quote Integration

• Lewis fascination with closets and stories began
  as a child. Sitting inside the oaken darkness of
  his grandfathers handmade wardrobe, the young
  writer would dream and create stories for his
  cousin and friends (Smith 965).

• Sometimes, when their cousin came to visit, the
  three of them would climb into a black oak
  wardrobe, hand carved by Lewis and Warrens
  grandfather, and sit in the dark while Lewis told
  stories (Smith 965).

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Integrating Quotes (Nothing Naked)

• Everything that goes up must come down. This
  was said by Albert Einstein, and after all this
  so did many other scientists.

• When even Einstein himself deduced everything
  that goes up must come down, it is no wonder
  that the sci-fi novel The Hitchhikers Guide to
  the Universe is based on this same principle.

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Integrating Quotes (Nothing Naked)

• Being a mother means that your heart is no
  longer yours it wanders wherever your children
  do. This loving quote is the reverse feeling in
  the short story The Rocking Horse Winner it
  contradicts the way the mother feels about her
  son.

• Whoever said, Being a mother means that your
  heart is no longer yours it wanders wherever
  your children do never met Mother, the cold,
  callous protagonist in D. H. Lawrences short
  story The Rocking Horse Winner.