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Lead Ins
Using Quotes
Parenthetical documentation
Active Verbs
Possible lead-ins
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accepts
acknowledges
adds
affirms
explains
agrees
argues
asserts
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proposes
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claims
discusses
implies
confirms
contends
contradicts
declares
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describes
disagrees
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insists
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When do you use a lead -in
• Whenever you are placing information
about a source in the body of your paper,
you are creating a lead-in or tag.
• The first time you cite a source, it is
preferred to give both first and last name
and some information about the author.
• A lead-in (active verb/transition) can be
placed at the beginning, middle or end.
Examples
• James Patterson, a professor at Harvard’s
medical school, states that more than 300,000
Americans die annually as a direct result of
tobacco smoking (31).
• Despite the fact that the U.S. public has been
warned for years about the serious health threat
posed by tobacco smoking, James Patterson, a
professor at Harvard’s medical school, states
that more than 300, 000 Americans die annually
as a direct result of tobacco smoking (31).
• More than 300,000 Americans die annually
as a direct result of tobacco smoking
asserts, James Patterson, a professor at
Harvard’s medical school.
Your turn
• Not only do animals provide
companionship and devotion, they also
lower our blood pressure, ease our stress,
and according to some researchers, even
prolong our lives
• Karen Dale “Is your Dog a Doctor” Natural
Healing Jan./Feb. 1999:62-64
• In the five million years since we humans
separated from apes, our DNA has
evolved less than 2%
• Walter Frye “The Biotech Century” Time 11
Jan. 1999: 42-43
• If we want to do something about violence,
we have to do something about education,
about jobs, about TV violence, about the
“Pandora’s box” of social problems from
which we have no answers.
• Allen, Jennifer. “The Danger years.” New
York Times 21 Dec. 1999,late ed. C&-C8.
• We tell girls that they need to be big and strong
if they want to play and succeed at certain sports
such as basketball; but the minute the game is
over we expect them to go back to the skinny,
anorexic look.
• Sherwood, Jess. “Conflicting Values in Women’s
Sports.” Miami Herald Online 18 Apr. 1999. 20
Apr.1999<http://www.miami.com/70/herald/nat/c
gi-bin.