Using Quotes: Introduce, Explain, Pertain English

Journal #16  Think about the interview you had yesterday with Ms. Gniewek and Mr. Trinidad. Look back to the notes you took. Now, write about your favorite place that they talked about. Why was that place your favorite? What did the speakers say about it that made you want to go there? What would you do when you get there?

Using Quotes  Find quotes directly in text that help to show HOW or WHY your thesis is correct  Quotes mean different things to different people  So clearly explain what YOU see, so your reader sees the same thing  In order to do this:  INTRODUCE  EXPLAIN  PERTAIN

Using Quotes: Introduce  INTRODUCE quotes or information with background information  Provide a context (setting) for your quote.  What larger idea does this quote fit into?  Give me a hint into what the quote is going to discuss  Who is the author? Title? Are they reliable or do you need to build reliablity?

Introduce Example If there is a country that is filled with crazy and insane adventures, it must be Costa Rica. According to Ms. Gniewek during her class interview, Costa Rica has “bungee-jumping, surfing, and even for the most extreme tourists volcano exploration” (Ms. Gniewek, Personal Interview). Essentially, Costa Rica has everything that a thrill seeker could find, even though the country is so small. When you choose a vacation destination, many people pick for many different reasons, but needing something to do should always be at the top or your list. For this reason, Costa Rica would me my destination without a second thought.

Using Quotes: Explain  Explain: what you see in quote—can go before or after quote  Put the quote in your own words  Describe what in quote is IMPORTANT  It has to be important to your thesis (what you believe)…or don’t use it!

Explain Example If there is a country that is filled with crazy and insane adventures, it must be Costa Rica. According to Ms. Gniewek during her class interview, Costa Rica has “bungee-jumping, surfing, and even for the most extreme tourists volcano exploration” (Ms. Gniewek, Personal Interview). Essentially, Costa Rica has everything that a thrill seeker could find, even though the country is so small. When you choose a vacation destination, many people pick for many different reasons, but needing something to do should always be at the top or your list. For this reason, Costa Rica would me my destination without a second thought.

Using Quotes: Pertain  Pertain: make connection between information and thesis  What is the link between this quote and your thesis?  Why are using this as support?  HOW is it supporting your thesis?  THIS IS THE POINT OF YOUR PAPER  THIS IS THE POINT OF YOUR PAPER  So pick strong quotes!!

Pertain Example If there is a country that is filled with crazy and insane adventures, it must be Costa Rica. According to Ms. Gniewek during her class interview, Costa Rica has “bungee-jumping, surfing, and even for the most extreme tourists volcano exploration” (Ms. Gniewek, Personal Interview). Essentially, Costa Rica has everything that a thrill seeker could find, even though the country is so small. When you choose a vacation destination, many people pick one for many different reasons, but needing something to do should always be at the top or your list. For this reason, Costa Rica would be my destination without a second thought.

Antarctica  Antarctica is the farthest south land mass on the planet. According to Professor Kris Vowell, “Antarctica is very cold” (Vowell, Classroom Lecture). Since Antarctica is so cold, it is the only place you can go belly sliding with penguins. If you are looking to freeze your hinnies off, there is no better place to do this than the place temperatures are the lowest in the world.

Using Quotes: Parenthetical Citation  Use parenthesis() outside and after quote to cite where you got information  End punctuation goes after parenthetical citation  Example:  Website (author’s last name title of website)  Newspaper article (author’s last name title of article)  Book: (author’s last name page number)

Integrating Quotes  Four Way to Integrate Quotes  Blue Collar  Rainstorm  Smooth Move  Good Citizen

Using Quotes: Integrating Sources  The Blue Collar: Quote between the credibility of the source and your comment  According to Harold Bloom, acclaimed Shakespeare critic and Yale professor, "The genius of Shakespeare's work lies in his ability to differentiate between classes and races and epochs far removed from his own experience" (Bloom 56).

Integrating Sources  The Rainstorm: You allow raindrops of the quoted material to intersperse either your own words or your paraphrase:  According to Harold Bloom, acclaimed Shakespeare critic and Yale professor, Shakespeare's "genius" came from his illustrations of so many "classes and races and epochs" which were not actually part of his "own experience" (Bloom 56).

Integrating Sources  The Smooth Move: Begin with your own words or paraphrase and end with quoted material (or vise-versa) The catch: it must all read like a sentence—it must be grammatically correct.  According to Harold Bloom, acclaimed Shakespeare critic and Yale professor, the Bard is actually worthy of the mantle we have placed upon him not because of the breadth of his work, but rather, because he was able "to differentiate between classes and races and epochs far removed from his own experience" (Bloom 56).

Integrating Sources  The Good Citizen: to wholly paraphrase a person's ideas and then give that person credit:  According to Harold Bloom, acclaimed Shakespeare critic and Yale professor, the Bard is actually worthy of the mantle we have placed upon him not because of the breadth of his work but rather because he was able to somehow invent and convey the experience of the universal human, regardless of situation or time (Bloom 56).

Integrating Sources  The Cut-n-Paste: Brackets are our friends. You can insert anything you want to say into anything someone else has said, anytime, anywhere.  According to Harold Bloom, acclaimed Shakespeare critic and Yale professor, "The genius of Shakespeare's work [excluding his sonnets, presumably] lies in his ability to differentiate between classes and races and epochs far removed from his own experience [in Elizabethan England]" (Bloom 56).

Integrating Sources  The That Ain't Mine!: If you are cool enough to find and identify source material that is incorrect, you can write [sic] after the incorrect part to show the reader that the source actually made the mistake.  According to Harold Bloom, "Shakespeare likeed [sic] to eet [sic] apples and honie [sic] as a snak [sic]" (Bloom 56).

Integrating Sources  The Starting Gate: The first time you refer to a source, refer to the source's first and last name. After that, it is last name only.  First time: According to Harold Bloom, (blah blah blah)  Second and successive times: According to Bloom, (blah blah blah)

Other Hints  Avoid vague words:  Good, bad  Nice, happy, kind  Any others?

Other Hints:  Do not use “you”  Not making assumptions about your reader  Do not use:  I believe, I’m going to tell you, I think  TRANSITION  finally, as a result, in conclusion, therefore, again, another, for instance, moreover, additionally, next, finally, in addition