Quality quotes and quote weaving

Look at every detail:

Look at this quote and take notice of every detail:

“Pallas Athena, harboring kindness for the hero, / drifted a heavy mist around him, shielding him / from any swaggering islander who’d cross his path, / provoke him with taunts and search out who he was”

Nuts and Bolts For poetry:

Lines are represented with / for The Odyssey, use (book.line#s) – (Homer

19.125-129) If a string of quotes all from the same source,

drop the authors name. (22.128-130) For film and textbook, look up MLA Format

LMC Website Google “MLA citations”

“MLA film citations” “MLA Multivolume book citations”

Quotes and citations (MLA)

We use quotes to support our argument with solid evidence.

A citation is a cross-reference. If you make an argument, your reader should be able to pick up the book you are citing and get more information.

Quality versus Lame quotes Your quote is support for your analysis, for

your argument. If your argument is the gods played a role in everyday life, you could use this: “Pallas Athena, harboring kindness for the

hero, / drifted a heavy mist around him, shielding him / from any swaggering islander who’d cross his path, / provoke him with taunts and search out who he was” (Homer 3.16-19).

Look at each word, literary device, etc. Anything at all that can help you argue your point.

Three ways to weave a quote (MLA)

Comma – the most common. Proctor says, “I think it is not easy to prove she’s

a fraud, and the town gone so silly” (Miller 63). “I think it is not easy to prove she’s a fraud,”

Proctor says to Danforth, “and the town gone so silly.”

Or it can be woven more fluently. While trying to wrestle with the chaos in Salem,

Proctor argues, “the town gone so silly” (Miller 63).

Three ways to weave a quote

Integrate the quote into your own sentence

However, if the town continues on the path forged, the “main role of government changes from that of the arbiter to that of the scourge of God” (Miller 34).

Three ways of weaving a quote

Use a colon: (probably the least common)

Proctor believes he will not be believed in the court of Salem: “She told it to me in a room alone—I have no proof of it” (Miller 53).

Punctuation

“I have no proof for it” (Miller 53). “You were alone with her?” (Miller

53).

Evaluate your own chosen quotes: Does it support the point you are making in the

paragraph that is stated in the topic sentence? Does it support my chosen example? (Your quote

should not be about apples if you are writing about oranges.)

Is the quote interesting? Example of non-interesting quote: “Jane ran”(Smith

2). Will I have something to explain about it in my

analysis so I can demonstrate my HLT skills? Is it cited correctly? Is the citation punctuated correctly? “Jane ran”(Smith 2).

Ready to write:

Be prepared: Book Prompt Notes Blue packet

Brainstorm Outline Write

Due dates

Monday, Nov. 7 Final draft due. Typed and complete.

Incomplete or no draft will result in letter grade deduction from final essay.

Must be in to turnitin.com by 11:59 Tuesday night. Failure to turn in either of these will result in a ZERO / 100.