1. Integrating quotations smoothly into your writing
TIE-ing in Quotations
Integrating quotations smoothly into your writing

2. Punctuation after citation
THE ESSENTIALS
Citation: You must give credit for anything you take from the text:
Zaroff states that the ideal quarry “must possess courage, cunning, and above all, it must have reason” (Connell 18).
Writer’s Last Name
Page Number
Punctuation after citation

3. THE ESSENTIALS
Quoted material can never stand alone. You must TIE it in into one sentence:
BAD EXAMPLE (NOT TIED IN):
Holden is not happy.
Holden leaves the compound.
“You brute, you brute” (Salinger 234).

4. THE ESSENTIALS
Quoted material can never stand alone. You must TIE it in:
GOOD EXAMPLE (TIED IN):
“You brute, you brute” (Salinger 234), Holden mutters as he leaves the compound where he…

5. THE ESSENTIALS
Your T.I.E. must lead in—you must lead your reader into the story by giving the context the quotation comes from:
“You brute, you brute” (Salinger 234), Holden mutters as he leaves the compound where he and Ameera have spent many happy hours.
Story Context

6. TAG Begin the sentence with the writer’s words (a quotation)
Citation follows immediately after
Finish with your own words

7. TAG
1. Writer’s words
2. Citation
“You brute, you brute” (Salinger 234), Holden mutters as he leaves the compound where he and Ameera have spent many happy hours.
3. Your words

8. INTRODUCE Begin the sentence with your own words
Finish with you’re the writer’s words (a quotation)
Citation follows immediately after

9. INTRODUCE
1. Your words
As Holden leaves the compound where he and Ameera have spent many happy hours, he mutters, “You brute, you brute” (Salinger 234).
2. Writer’s words
3. Citation

10. EMBED Begin the sentence with your own words Write the writer’s words
Citation follows immediately after
Finish with your own words

11. EMBED
1. Your words
2. Writer’s words
Holden mutters, “You brute, you brute” (Salinger 234), as he leaves the compound where he and Ameera have spent many happy hours.
3. Citation
4. Your words

12. Let’s Review Write answers in your English Journal:
What does T.I.E. stand for?
Write the order of your words, the citation, author’s words for all three (T, I and E).

13. Let’s Review Tag Introduce E mbed Tag = 1. Writer’s words 2. Citation
3. Your words

14. Let’s Review Introduce = 1. Your words 2. Writer’s words 3. Citation
Embed = 1. Your words
4. Your words