Quotation Integration

Mixing your words with words from the text

Adding evidence to your essay

Quotes need to support the ideas in your thesis and topic sentences

Explain the speaker and the situation for each quote. Use transitional expressions.

Remember to document your quotes with the author’s name and page number from the text

Thesis : In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, Ann Putnam contributes to the hysteria in Salem because of her superstition and jealousy.

Paragraph # 2/ Character trait # 1 Topic sentence: Mrs. Putnam’s superstitious

beliefs spread the fear of witchcraft. CD# 1: For example, in Act I Mrs. Putnam

tells Reverend Parris that “Tituba knows how to speak to the dead” ( Miller 146).

CD # 2: In addition, when Betty starts to scream while they are singing, Mrs. Putnam exclaims, “The psalm! The psalm! She cannot bear to hear the Lord’s name” ( Miller 150).

Thesis : In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, Ann Putnam contributes to the hysteria in Salem because of her superstition and jealousy

Paragraph # 3 / character trait # 2 Topic sentence: Mrs. Putnam’s jealousy causes the

death of innocent people. CD# 1: When Rebecca Nurse suggests that the girls

are pretending, Goody Putnam angrily says, “You think it is God’s work you should never loose a child, nor grandchild neither, and I bury all but one?” ( Miller 152).

CD# 2: Finally, in Act 4, Reverend Hale reveals that he has “ signed away the soul of Rebecca Nurse” as a result of Mrs. Putnam’s accusation ( Miller 188).

Commentary

Opinions and Analysis

Topic sentence: Mrs. Putnam’s jealousy causes the death of innocent people

CD# 1: When Rebecca Nurse suggests that the girls are pretending, Goody Putnam angrily says, “You think it is God’s work you should never loose a child, nor grandchild neither, and I bury all but one?” ( Miller 152).

CM # 1: This shows that Mrs. Putnam is envious of Rebecca Nurse’s healthy children.

CM# 2: Mrs. Putnam’s jealous heart accuses Goody Nurse of iniquity, and she convinces her daughter Ruth to name Rebecca as one of the witches in Salem.

Topic sentence: Mrs. Putnam’s jealousy causes the death of innocent people .

CD# 2: Finally, in Act 4, Reverend Hale reveals that he has “ signed away the soul of Rebecca Nurse” as a result of Mrs. Putnam’s accusation ( Miller 188).

CM# 1: Mrs. Putnam’s jealousy is a disease that infects the entire community; no one is safe from the noose.

CM # 2: Instead of showing deference to Rebecca Nurse for her years of service to the church, they hang her because she refuses to confess.

CS: Mrs. Putnam’s resentment leads to the death of a respected woman, Rebecca Nurse.