Dont Float Your Quotes!! Quote Flow (How to embed textual
evidence within a sentence)
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Textual Evidence Textual Evidence: 1. Is anything within the
written text: can be a. What a person says b. Narrator explaining
something TEXTUAL EVIDENCE IS ANYTHING WITHIN THE TEXT; Textual
evidence is you proof to prove your answer to the question Answer +
textual evidence + explanation of quote and how it proves your
answer
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Dont Float Your Quotes Method 1: Identify the speaker of the
dialogue before the quotation. Transition words like (for example,
for instance) are good to use sometimes. Examples 1. Smith states,
"He was a winner. 2. Ortega believes,"You stick to it. 3. For
instance, Marc says that his favorite class is chemistry. 4.
Macbeth desperately asks, Will all great Neptunes ocean wash this
blood clean from my hands? (II.ii.59).
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Dont Float Your Quotes Method 2 Blend the text as if the words
were already a natural part of your own sentence. Examples: 1.
Hardy used the lantern hanging at her wagon as a symbol of Tesss
future. 2. Because his emotions are swirling as a result of leaving
the bedside of his dying friend, Paul experiences the earth
streaming with forces which pour into [him] through the soles of
[his] feet (33). a. Anytime you insert your own words within a
quote you must put it in brackets.
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Dont Float Your Quotes Method 3: shortening quote If you omit
material in order to be concise, mark the omission with 3 periods
(called an ellipsis). You do not need to use these at the beginning
and end of your quotations. It is understood that you are taking
passages from a longer work. Ex. As Lennie continued to crush
Curleys fist, he turned white and shrunkenhis fist lost in Lennies
paw (68).
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Examples Examples for introducing quotations 1. Edith Hamilton
states, ____________ (55). 2. According to Hamilton, ___________.
(45). 3. In her book, Mythology, Edith Hamilton maintains that
__________ (59). 4. In Hamiltons view, _____________ (39). 5.
Hamilton argues that, _______ (39). Examples for including
commentary on your quote 1. Hamiltons claim that ____________
assumes that ________. 2. Hamilton emphasizes _________. 3.
Hamiltons points out ________ because _________. 4. Hamilton
provides ample evidence that _________ is _________. 5. Although
Hamiltons claims support _________, it can also be said that
______. You may use the examples above, but they are only a few
simple examples. The most effective way to introduce quotes and
include commentary would require that you tailor your introductions
and commentary to fit the topic and purpose of your paper.
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Practice Quote Flow Fix the following examples to where it
fluidly embeds textual evidence. 1. James talks about stealing
purses and selling watches when he was at his worst. He has no
emotions concerning this. Every time they surged up, I shoved them
back down inside me the way you stuff clothing in a drawer and shut
it. Method #1: James asserted that every time they surged up, [he]
shoved them back down inside [himself] the way you stuff clothing
in a drawer and shut it. Method #2: He has no emotions concerning
this because every time they surged up, [he] shoved them back down
inside [himself] the way you stuff clothing in a drawer and shut
it.
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Warm-up 10/24/12 (Practice Quote Flow) 1. Ferocious beasts of
the forest who lie in wait for their prey show how Fredrick
Douglass thinks the people are cruel and animal-like. Fredrick
Douglass thinks that people are cruel and animal-like and compare
them to ferocious beasts of the forest who lie in wait for their
prey.
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2. Lennies strength overpowered Curley. The next minute Curley
was flopping like a fish on a line, and his closed fist was lost in
Lennies big hand. Curley was white and shrunken by now, and his
struggle had become weak. He stood crying, his fist lost in Lennys
paw. Lennies strength so overpowered Curley that Curley looked like
a fish on a line with his fist lost in Lennies paw.