1. Cooking Up a Quote Burger with Chef Noyes
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How to properly integrate quotations into your writing

2. Quotes need to be treated like burgers!
Would you ever order a burger without a bun? Why not?
Quotes need to be treated like burgers!

3. This is the introduction to your quote
You need a top bun

4. This is your quote!
You need the meat…

5. This is the explanation or justification of your quote.
Now to hold it all up!

6. Now you have a quote burger!
1. Introduce quote (top bun)
2. Insert quote (burger)
3. Explain quote (bottom bun)
Now you have a quote burger!

7. Look at the example given, then try to make a burger of your own!
Example Time!
Look at the example given, then try to make a burger of your own!

8. See how it all fits together?
The properly integrated quote
The quote burger
Ace reporter Brick Tamland once said, “I ate fiberglass insulation. It wasn’t cotton candy…my tummy itches.” He is not the brightest crayon in the box.
Ace reporter Brick Tamland once said,
“I ate fiberglass insulation. It wasn’t cotton candy…my tummy itches”
He is not the brightest crayon in the box.
See how it all fits together?

9. Your Turn! Take the following quote and turn it into a quote burger
“A waffle is a pancake with a syrup trap.”
- Mitch Hedberg
How would you introduce this quote? What is your “top bun?”
Now add the quote. Mmmmm burger…
Bottom bun: Why is this quote relevant?

10. Here’s my burger; it may be different from yours, but that’s okay!
All burgers are not created the same, but they all contain three
main ingredients: a top bun, a burger, and a bottom bun
All quotes are not integrated using the same words, but they all
have an introduction, a quotation, and an explanation.

11. Funnyman Mitch Hedberg wisely stated,
“A waffle is a pancake with a syrup trap.”
That guy is pretty insightful, if you ask me!