Objective

• After viewing the powerpoint, students will

demonstrate understanding of how to

incorporate quotations into their writing by

summarizing the main points in their Cornell

notes.

Objective

• You will:

– Understand how to incorporate quotations into

your writing.

• Show me by:

– Writing a summary of the main points in your

Cornell notes.

Using Quotations Notes Set #3

When do I quote literature?

1. When language is especially vivid or

expressive.

2. When exact wording is needed for

effect or to make a point.

3. When I am specifically discussing a

writer’s word choice.

• Choose words unique to that text.

What is a Quote Bomb?

• A “Quote Bomb” is when a writer begins a

sentence with a quotation.

– Even quotations with a preceding introductory

sentence count as quote bombs.

Example of a Quote Bomb:

Jack and Ralph do not get along with each other. “They walked

along, two continents of experience and feeling, unable to

communicate” (Golding 55).

This period makes this a quote bomb.

BUT…just replacing the comma with a period WILL NOT FIX IT!

Set up your quotation by putting it in context

BLEND the quote into the sentence

When does it happen? What is going on?

Do not just drop the quote in at a random spot in

your paragraph.

Example:

As the boys begin to gather wood for the fire, “Jack turned to

the choir, who stood ready. Their black caps of maintenance

were slid over one ear like berets” (Golding 39).

How do I avoid quote bombs?

Introductory phrase End punctuation follows citation

Citation: (Last name page)

When Natalia meets Pere in the market and he calls

her by her actual name, she “thought of how used

[she] was to only hearing, ‘Colometa, Colometa’”

(Rodoreda 55).

When trying to explain his theory of The Beast to the

other boys, “Simon became inarticulate in his effort

to express mankind’s essential illness” (Golding 89).

More Examples…

Quoting a quote is a pain in the butt…

Contextual Information

Contextual Information

When do I use an ellipsis? …

If you leave out unnecessary words from a direct

quotation.

What you do use still needs to make sense as a sentence

This indicates to readers that your quotation does

not completely reproduce the original

Example:

Oscar Wilde said, “Education is an admirable thing,

but [. . .] nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”

Ellipsis

Introductory Phrase

ellipsis

More Examples

In seeking causes for plagues in the Middle Ages, as Barbara W.

Tuchman writes, “Medical thinking [. . .] stressed air as the

communicator of disease, ignoring sanitation or visible

carriers.”

Sherwood Anderson said, “The whole object of

education is [. . .] to develop the mind. The mind

should be a thing that works.”

Ellipsis

Introductory Phrase

Ellipsis

Introductory Phrase

How do I change words within a quotation?

Sometimes it is necessary to make changes to a

quotation for clarity of meaning or grammatical

reasons.

• Place the altered word in brackets. Example (yes…they are quote bombs)

– “He slept behind barred and bolted doors.”

– “[Rhitta] slept behind barred and bolted doors.”

Example:

When Natalia meets Pere at the market and he calls her by her

actual name, she “thought of how used [she] was to only hearing.

‘Colometa, Colometa’” (Rodoreda 55).

Changed from “I”

Quoting Lines of Poetry

When you are quoting three lines or fewer from a

poem, incorporate the quotation into the body of

your paragraph.

– Use slashes (/) to indicate line breaks within the poem

– Keep all punctuation and capitalization intact as it appears

in the poem

– Include the line number in parenthesis after the close

quotes.

The Cleric “preferred having twenty books

of red / And black, of Aristotle’s

philosophy, / Than costly clothes, fiddle,

or psaltery” (304-306).

Slashes indicate line breaks.

NO QUOTE BOMBS!!!

Line number

citation followed by

a period.

Capital letters and commas at line breaks are still there.

An Example from the

Canterbury Tales

Write your summary for your Cornell notes.

Ms. Slade says this is the most important thing

for me to learn this summer.

3 additional sentences in your summary.

Closure