Integrating Quotations It’s good for your body

Integration The word means to to bring together or incorporate (parts) into a whole. to make up, combine, or complete to produce a whole or a larger unit, as parts do. So what you are doing by integrating quotations is taking PARTS of the quotation and PARTS of your own thoughts and putting them together for a WHOLE

Test whether you have integrated You do not explain the quotation The entire quotation is not present You have put your words around it

Example – A VERY BAD EXAMPLE What Juliet says when she finds out who Romeo is, is “My only love sprung from my only hate.” (Shakespeare). SO MANY PROBLEMS It would be worse if it said –”My only love sprung from my only hate.” This is what Juliet says when she sees Romeo.

A BETTER WAY TO DO IT Juliet is devastated to realize that her new love interest comes from her “only hate” (Shakespeare I.i.). It only uses a part of the quotation and makes a whole

Here’s another Mercutio is an innocent victim. “A plague on both your houses!” (Shakespeare III.ii) is his repeated swan song echoing the sentiments of an entire town that has seen so much blood.

More with analysis and not simply summary The tale of “star-cross’d lovers” (Shakespeare I.i) brings the fatalistic nature of the feud to the forefront of the tale.

Benefits of integration Gets rid of announcements Makes it so you USE your sources Keeps you from summarizing Shows doesn’t tell Tellling is explaining and announcing Showing is proving – You want to prove!!!!