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    INTEGRATING QUOTATIONS FROM SOURCES

    Problem

    Writers often use quotations from sources to support and develop their own claims and
    arguments. Less experienced writers risk letting other authors’ words, ideas, and claims
    overwhelm their own, or use quotations out of context in ways that are confusing or change
    the author’s original meaning. Common problems include the following:

    • Doing a “drop and run”: throwing in a quotation without introduction or comment.


    • Letting the quotation have the last word, which forces the reader to figure out the
    significance of the quotation.
    • Quoting information that would better be summarized or left out.

    Solutions

    ALERT THE READER WHO YOU ARE QUOTING WITH A SHORT SIGNAL-PHRASE
    LEAD-IN AND COMMA.

    Example:
    Theater critic Rohan Preston observes, “Director Lou Bellamy has a way of looking so
    deeply into the theatergoer’s soul that audience members often call out involuntarily to
    characters—responding to their queries and whims, offering advice and succor.”

    Example:
    According to theater critic Rohan Preston, “Director Lou Bellamy has a way of looking so
    deeply into the theatergoer’s soul that audience members often call out involuntarily to
    characters—responding to their queries and whims, offering advice and succor.”

    Example:
    Although there are “procedural aspects related to the measurement of conditioned
    inhibition of fear potentiated startle,” Engelmann argues that researchers should also be
    concerned with “the actual conditioning procedure that is used” during training (35).

    VARY THE VERBS USED TO SIGNAL QUOTATIONS.

    argues demonstrates
    agrees emphasizes
    asserts illustrates
    claims implies
    comments observes
    compares notes
    declares responds
    disagrees states
    disputes suggests
    INTEGRATE PART OF THE QUOTATION INTO YOUR COMPLETE SENTENCE.

    Example:
    Rohan Preston suggests that Bellamy is a skillful director because he “has a way of
    looking so deeply into the theatergoer’s soul that audience members often call out
    involuntarily to characters.”

    WRITE A COMPLETE SENTENCE STATING YOUR CLAIM OR OBSERVATION, and


    follow with a colon and the quotation.

    Example:
    Preston demonstrates that Director Lou Bellamy knows how to get the audience
    involved: “members often call out involuntarily to characters—responding to their
    queries and whims, offering advice and succor.”

    FOLLOW THE QUOTATION WITH ONE OR MORE SENTENCES THAT COMMENT ON


    IT. This practice will help your readers understand what is significant about the quotation.
    You can paraphrase the quotation, and/or you can draw readers’ attention to significant
    words and phrases by quoting them in your sentence.

    Example:
    In her study of Division I student-athletes, ethnographer Julie Cheville notes the
    identity-related challenges that come with playing a team sport: “the perpetual dilemma
    for players and coaches is to recognize and sustain identities of difference in the midst of
    public pressures to be the same and conceptual pressures to think the same” (55). In
    other words, student-athletes must struggle to maintain their own senses of self while
    still integrating seamlessly into the team. Student-athletes are not the only ones involved
    in this identity struggle; rather, “public pressures” and “conceptual pressures” can work
    against their own and their coaches’ abilities to see them as individuals.

    USE SQUARE BRACKETS TO ADD WORDS NECESSARY FOR UNDERSTANDING THE


    QUOTATION. USE ELLIPSES TO REMOVE UNNECESSARY WORDS.

    Example:
    Engelmann summarizes a current theory about the relationship between learning and
    anxiety disorders: “When these [learning] processes fail to work properly… , a state of
    chronic fear or anxiety may develop because the animal cannot discriminate between
    periods of safety and danger” (1-2).

    For more information:


    Hacker, Diana, and Nancy Sommers. A Writer’s Reference. 7th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s,
    2011. 379–385, 505–510. Print.

    “Incorporating Quotations into Sentences.” UW-Madison Writing Center Writer’s Handbook. UW-
    Madison Writing Center, 2009. Web. 13 Jun. 2012.

    Works Cited:
    Cheville, Julie. Minding the Body: What Student Athletes Know About Learning. Portsmouth, NH:
    Boynton/Cook, 2001. Print.

    Engelmann, J.M. “Backward Conditioning with Single or Multiple Unconditioned Stimulus


    Presentations Measured by Fear-Potentiated Startle in Rats.” Honors Thesis. University of
    Minnesota, 2005. Print.

    Preston, Rohan. “Audience Can’t Help Talking Back to the Incisive ‘Diva Daughters.’” Star Tribune 15
    Feb. 2004: 4B. Print.

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