How to Embed Quotations within Text
Quoting from other sources, including journals, television, magazines, interviews, is important to academic writing. This type of support lends authority to the text, substantiating the thesis. What quotations you use is equally as important to how you use them. Here are some guidelines below to aid you in your use of quotations. What quotations to use: The amount of information available is phenomenal. Much of it is of little consequence; some is excellent. However you must use discretion and critical thinking to choose what is appropriate. Some criteria to use when evaluating a document will help. 1. Relevance: what's your thesis? What does the document under consideration have to do with it? Be sure to have a focus when you sit 2. The second factor to consider is how to place the quotations you will use in the body of the text down to research.
If a quotation is less than three lines long, place it within the paragraph. Make sure your punctuation for it follows this pattern, with the notation of your source within the sentence: "Quotation," (Author 3), of course, indicating page number. If the quotation is over 3 ½ lines long, indent the whole passage five spaces from the margin. In this case, do not use quotation marks and make sure your notation of author and page number within parenthesis is placed outside the sentence. Quotations should only be used to support your point-of-view. This means you should always have at least one sentence which leads into the quotation, and one leads out of it. The point is to have another person's thoughts and ideas flow smoothly with your own. Many verbs can be used to introduce summaries, paraphrases and quotations. Some are comments, describes, explains, reveals, proposes, reports, thinks, writes, considers, concludes, claims, contends, insists, admits, concedes, concurs, derides, laments, speculates, warns, etc.
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