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Lesson: Quote Integration
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quote integration
ENL 101
Introduction
Quoting
Using the words of other people to illustrate your own ideas is a key part of writing and communication in general -- and it's a useful way to approach forwarding and countering.
Skillful quoting
A well-integrated quote can support your point, prove your argument, and/or clarify important concepts in your essay.
Using overly long (or too many) quotations.
Crediting the wrong person - or not giving credit at all.
Quoting a passage out of context.
Quoting a passage incorrectly.
Dropping a quote with no warning or further explanation.
Excess
Misattribution
Contextomy
Misquotation
Plopping
Common quotation pitfalls
Strategies
Signal phrases
Key verbs that let the reader know you're about to quote another writer.
What do you notice about these examples?
On Brunvand: Folklorist Jan Harold Brunvand offers an explanation for the popularity of these urban legends: "the horror tales often contain thinly-disguised sexual themes which [...] furnish both a measure of entertainment and [...] cautionary notices" (48).
Signal phrases
From Brunvand: The students said, "I believe that it could happen, and this makes it seem real,” or "I don’t really [believe it], but it’s pretty scary; I sort of hope it didn’t happen."
A speaker is introduced using a verb that signals a quote is coming.
On Brunvand: Folklorist Jan Harold Brunvand offers an explanation for the popularity of these urban legends: "the horror tales often contain thinly-disguised sexual themes which [...] furnish both a measure of entertainment and [...] cautionary notices" (48).
Signal phrases
From Brunvand: The students said, "I believe that it could happen, and this makes it seem real,” or "I don’t really [believe it], but it’s pretty scary; I sort of hope it didn’t happen."
Seamless integration
Folding another writer's words naturally into your own sentence.
In these examples, the quote is built into the rest of the sentence.
On Turner: These rumors might sound absurd, but in Black communities, "the process of rendering such motifs [...] can function postively" (Turner 164).
Seamless integration
From Turner: Several people suggested that the KKK's goal was to "make blacks infertile."
Analysis
But what do you think?
Successful quoting isn't just about sentence-level integration -- it requires communicating your understanding too.
Analysis = Connection
By analyzing a quote, you show the reader how another person's words relate to (and support) your point.
Dundes, taking a Freudian line, interpreted the hook itself as a phallic symbol which penetrates the girl’s door handle (or bumps seductively against her window) but which is torn off (symbolic of castration) when the car starts abruptly. Girls who tell the story, Dundes suggests, "are not afraid of what a man lacks, but of what he has”; a date who is “all hands” may really want to “get his hooks into her.”
Example: Brunvand
Shibutani points out, "Spectacular events with possible consequences for millions result in a sudden increase in demand for news that cannot be satisfied even by the most efficient press service." AIDS certainly falls in this category, and indeed, the rumors are abundant. For instance, I encountered many informants, gay and heterosexual alike, who believed that the disease was an experiment in biological warfare intended to diminish the world's homosexual population.
Example: Turner
Identifying quotable passages
A good quote...
- Supports your argument
- Is relevant to your topic
- Adds value to your essay
Block quote: a long quotation that is set apart from the rest of the text through indentation.
Paraphrase: express the meaning of the writer using different words.