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Using Quotations In your analytical essays

Using Quotations In your analytical essays. The Three Steps of Effective Quoting Introduce the quotation Quote the quotation Explain the quotation

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Page 1: Using Quotations In your analytical essays. The Three Steps of Effective Quoting Introduce the quotation Quote the quotation Explain the quotation

Using Quotations

In your analytical essays

Page 2: Using Quotations In your analytical essays. The Three Steps of Effective Quoting Introduce the quotation Quote the quotation Explain the quotation

The Three Steps ofEffective Quoting

Introduce the quotation

Quote the quotation

Explain the quotation

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Introduce the Quotation

Give the context for the quotation

Who is speaking

To whom

In what situation

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Quote the Quotation

Pick a juicy, meaningful quotation that tells us a lot about a character or

situation.

Lindo Jong tells Waverly, “So you think your mother is this bad” (Tan 201).

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Quote the Quotation

Lindo Jong tells Waverly, “So you think your mother is this bad” (Tan 201).

Speech tag tells reader who is speaking

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Quote the Quotation

Lindo Jong tells Waverly, “So you think your mother is this bad” (Tan 201).

Use “tells” or “says”if you are quoting a character

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Quote the Quotation

Amy Tan writes, “So you think your mother is this bad” (Tan 201).

Use “writes” if you are quoting the author

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Quote the Quotation

Lindo Jong quotes Waverly, “So you think your mother is this bad” (Tan 201).

Do NOT use “quotes.”You are quoting them;

they did not quote.

Page 9: Using Quotations In your analytical essays. The Three Steps of Effective Quoting Introduce the quotation Quote the quotation Explain the quotation

Quote the Quotation

Lindo Jong tells Waverly, “So you think your mother is this bad” (Tan 201).

Speech tag, comma, quotation mark at beginning;

Comma, quotation mark at end

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Quote the Quotation

Lindo Jong tells Waverly, “So you think your mother is this bad” (Tan 201).

Citation: Where did you get the quotation?

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Quote the Quotation

Lindo Jong tells Waverly, “So you think your mother is this bad” (Tan 201).

Parentheses

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Quote the Quotation

In The Joy Luck Club, Lindo Jong tells Waverly, “So you think your mother is this bad” (Tan 201).

Underline the book title

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Quote the Quotation

Lindo Jong tells Waverly, “So you think your mother is this bad” (Tan 201).

Which page did you find the quotation?

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Explain the Quotation

Analyze the quotation

What the quotation means

What it shows about the character or situation

How it proves your point

Page 15: Using Quotations In your analytical essays. The Three Steps of Effective Quoting Introduce the quotation Quote the quotation Explain the quotation

Example:from Huckleberry Finn Essay

Huck makes the choice between helping Jim, which he thinks will damn him to hell, and giving Jim back to his owner. “All right then, I’ll go to hell” (Twain 214) is a ground-breaking decision for Huck between what society has taught him to believe and what he, and the reader, know to be the right path. Mark Twain brilliantly showed that the racist view that African Americans are property was incredibly incorrect, and that they are people with feelings too.

Page 16: Using Quotations In your analytical essays. The Three Steps of Effective Quoting Introduce the quotation Quote the quotation Explain the quotation

Example:from Huckleberry Finn Essay

Huck makes the choice between helping Jim, which he thinks will damn him to hell, and giving Jim back to his owner. “All right then, I’ll go to hell” (Twain 214) is a ground-breaking decision for Huck between what society has taught him to believe and what he, and the reader, know to be the right path. Mark Twain brilliantly showed that the racist view that African Americans are property was incredibly incorrect, and that they are people with feelings too.

Introduce the quotation:What is the context?

Page 17: Using Quotations In your analytical essays. The Three Steps of Effective Quoting Introduce the quotation Quote the quotation Explain the quotation

Example:from Huckleberry Finn Essay

Huck makes the choice between helping Jim, which he thinks will

damn him to hell, and giving Jim back to his owner. “All right then, I’ll go to hell” (Twain 214) is a ground-breaking decision for Huck between what society has taught him to believe and what he, and the reader, know to be the right path. Mark Twain brilliantly showed that the racist view that African Americans are property was incredibly incorrect, and that they are people with feelings too.

Quote the quotation, including citation

Page 18: Using Quotations In your analytical essays. The Three Steps of Effective Quoting Introduce the quotation Quote the quotation Explain the quotation

Example:from Huckleberry Finn Essay

Huck makes the choice between helping Jim, which he thinks will damn him to hell, and giving Jim back to his owner. “All right

then, I’ll go to hell” (Twain 214) is a ground-breaking decision for Huck between what society has taught him to believe and what he, and the reader, know to be the right path. Mark Twain brilliantly showed that the racist view that African Americans are property was incredibly incorrect, and that they are people with feelings too.

Explain the quotation: What does it mean?

What does it show about the character?

Page 19: Using Quotations In your analytical essays. The Three Steps of Effective Quoting Introduce the quotation Quote the quotation Explain the quotation

Example:from Huckleberry Finn Essay

Huck makes the choice between helping Jim, which he thinks will damn him to hell, and giving Jim back to his owner. “All right then, I’ll go to hell” (Twain 214) is a ground-breaking decision for Huck between what society has taught him to believe and what

he, and the reader, know to be the right path. Mark Twain brilliantly showed that the racist view that African Americans are property was incredibly incorrect, and that they are people with feelings too.

Explain the Quotation:How does it prove your point?

Page 20: Using Quotations In your analytical essays. The Three Steps of Effective Quoting Introduce the quotation Quote the quotation Explain the quotation

Example 2:from Huckleberry Finn Essay

After Huck lied to Jim about the accident in the fog and told him it was just a dream, Jim understood that Huck was lying. Huck felt miserable and he understood that Jim had feelings too. He thought, “It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a nigger, but I done it, and I warn’t ever sorry for it afterwards, neither” (86).

Page 21: Using Quotations In your analytical essays. The Three Steps of Effective Quoting Introduce the quotation Quote the quotation Explain the quotation

Example 2:from Huckleberry Finn Essay

After Huck lied to Jim about the accident in the fog and told him it was just a dream, Jim understood that Huck was lying. Huck felt miserable and he understood that Jim had feelings too. He thought, “It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a nigger, but I done it, and I warn’t ever sorry for it afterwards, neither” (86).

Introduce the quotation:What is the context?

Page 22: Using Quotations In your analytical essays. The Three Steps of Effective Quoting Introduce the quotation Quote the quotation Explain the quotation

Example 2:from Huckleberry Finn Essay

After Huck lied to Jim about the accident in the fog and told him it was just a dream, Jim understood that Huck was lying. Huck

felt miserable and he understood that Jim had feelings too.

He thought, “It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a nigger, but I done it, and I warn’t ever sorry for it afterwards, neither” (86).

Quote the quotation,including citation.

Page 23: Using Quotations In your analytical essays. The Three Steps of Effective Quoting Introduce the quotation Quote the quotation Explain the quotation

Example 2:from Huckleberry Finn Essay

After Huck lied to Jim about the accident in the fog and told him it

was just a dream, Jim understood that Huck was lying. Huck felt miserable and he understood that Jim had feelings too. He thought, “It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a nigger, but I done it, and I warn’t ever sorry for it afterwards, neither” (86).

Explain the quotation:What does it mean?

What does it show us about the character?

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To summarize…

Introduce the quotation

Quote the quotation

Explain the quotation