1. Quote Sandwiches
TSIS Ch. 3

2. Using Sources and Giving Credit
You’ve found your sources, read them, annotated them, and you’re ready to use your sources in your essay.
So… which quotes should you use?
Quotes that contain ideas you want to respond to.
Quotes where the original source’s wording is especially good or important to your response.
Quotes where the original source explains a complex idea clearly and succinctly.
Quotes that contain ideas that would make most people want proof.
Any quote you use should have an explanation/response that is TWICE AS LONG as the original quote. If a quote takes up two full lines of your paper, the explanation/response to that quote should take up FOUR.

3. They Say / I Say: Chapter 3
Quotations give your interaction with the ideas of your sources credibility. (p. 42)
Choose quotes that support your claim, and be flexible. This may change as you write.
Frame your quotes. (See how to make a “quote sandwich” on p. 46)
A bad example of how to use a quotation is on p. 45, and the improved example on p. 47.

4. The “Quote Sandwich”
This is a way to integrate quotes into your paper smoothly and avoid drop-in quotes.
The first piece of “bread”
Introduce quote, possibly mention author, connect quote to what you were saying before.
The “Meat”
Your quote, correctly cited with in-text citation.
The second piece of “bread”
Interpretation/explanation of quote (NOT simply rewording the quote), connect quote to what you will say next.

5. Online Examples of Quote Sandwiches
Notice that both of these examples make the quote a part of a sentence the essay author wrote, and notice that both examples give credit to the source’s author.

6. Quote Sandwich Practice
If you brought a possible source for Essay #1 with you today, choose a quote that you would like to respond to. Then, write a paragraph that includes the quote you chose in a quote sandwich. Remember, you need to INTRODUCE the quote by putting in in context, USE the quote with a correct in-text citation, and RESPOND to the quote by adding something new to the discussion.
If you did not bring a source, you must do this practice with one of the essays we have read as a class.