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Quotation Integration
You do not want “parachute quotations.” These occur when you drop your
quotation into your paragraph without any context or set-up.
Instead, make a “quotation sandwich”:
1. Give the context for the quotation before the quotation (who’s talking
to whom, what’s happening, etc.)
2. Weave/ blend your quotation into your CD.
You may use
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spoken quotations: this is when you say who is speaking to whom. You
use a comma before the quotation and a capital letter to start the
quotation
Example: Gene explained, “Bombs in Central Europe were completely
unreal to us here” (23).
OR
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woven quotations: this is when you weave the author’s words into your
own. The sentence needs to make grammatical sense. You do not use a
comma or a capital letter.
- Example: Morrison points out that social context prevented the authors of slave
narratives “from dwelling too long or too carefully on the more sordid details of the
experience” (109).
- If you need to change the quotation so it makes sense, change the
pronouns and verb forms. Use brackets whenever you change something
in a quotation.
- Example: The quotation says, “I want to go with you” (16).
Integration: He told them that “[he] want[s] to go with [them]” (16).
Remember your page numbers!
Page numbers go inside parentheses. You may put the author’s last name, but
do not put “p.”, “pg.”, etc.
- no periods or commas inside the quotation marks, if there is a
page number.
- question marks and exclamation points go inside the quotation
marks. The period still goes after the page number, however.
Examples:
- “Why did he go there?” (1).
- “Wow!” (1).
- “He is over there” (1).
Use ellipsis (…) marks when you want to quote the beginning and
end of a passage but not its middle.
The war was not immediate to the boys. Gene explained, “Bombs in Central Europe were
completely unreal to us here…because our place here was too fair for us to accept something like
that” (23).
*Do not use ellipses at the beginning or the end of the sentence!
(Note: page numbers always go at the end of the sentence. Also, if there is no page
number next to the quotation, the period or comma goes inside the quotation marks.)
- Proclaiming the friendship “wonderful,” Gene was confident it would continue (40).
Quick Tip: Do not draw attention to the quotation. Instead, integrate it smoothly. Do not say
“this quote shows,” etc. You want to stay away from statements like “On page 24, the narrator
says….” OR “In Chapter 3, this quote says…” You want to stay within the context of the text.
For a quotation inside a quotation, you use single quotation marks.
HOWEVER, you do NOT need these if the entire quotation is
someone speaking.
Gene explained, “Bombs in Central Europe were completely unreal” (120).
(note: only double quotation marks)
However, if part of the quotation is not that person talking, then you use single marks.
Gene “walked to the other side of the room saying, ‘Bombs in Central Europe!’” (120).
For example,
TYPES OF QUOTE INTEGRATION:
1. Spoken quotation: Mrs. Wilmot admitted to him, “When her children were present, she
always felt the center of her heart go hard” (120).
2. Begin with explanation: Even though Mrs. Wilmot appears to love her children to the rest of
the world, “when her children were present, she always felt the center of her heart go hard”
(120).
(note: there’s only a comma before a woven quotation if a comma would go in that sentence
even without the quotation.)
3. Quotation is inserted in the middle: Mrs. Wilmot “always felt the center of heart go hard”
when her children were present, but to the rest of the world, she appears to be a loving mother
(120).
* Note: page number goes at the end of the sentence.
Macbeth Quote Integration
For a play, use (Act. Scene. Line), instead of page number.
Thesis: Shakespeare uses the image of blood to display the violence done to victims and the
guilt that surrounds the Macbeths.
CD: “Out, damn spot, out I say!” (V.i.37)
BP: Whether the image is physically present or a figure of the character’s imagination, it
displays the guilty conscience that consumes the character.
CD with Integration: Lady Macbeth’s guilt consumes her as she constantly washes her hands
repeating, “Out, damn spot, out I say” (V.i.37).
CM: Duncan’s imaginary blood stains Lady Macbeth’s hands acting as a constant reminder of
her role in the murder of the noble king.
CM: Lady Macbeth’s persistent hand-washing demonstrates her endless guilt and her demise as
this invented spot refuses to fade.
Chunk becomes:
Whether the image is physically present or a figure of the character’s imagination, it displays the
guilty conscience that consumes the character. Lady Macbeth’s guilt consumes her as she
constantly washes her hands repeating, “Out, damn spot, out I say” (V.i.37). Duncan’s
imaginary blood stains Lady Macbeth’s hands acting as a constant reminder of her role in the
murder of the noble king. Lady Macbeth’s persistent hand-washing demonstrates her endless
guilt and her demise as this invented spot refuses to fade.
**Now, go back to your gems and work on quotation integration for as many as you can.
Combine your context with your quotation using a spoken or woven quotation integration.