Quote Integration Practice Worksheet
This product has been updated to the 8th edition of the mla handbook published in 2016.
Quote integration practice worksheet. During my first couple of years in the classroom i really struggled with teaching quote integration. When her children were present she always felt the centre of her heart go hard three types of quote integration. I m sorry i would love to dance but i have to leave.
Integrating quotations a convention of academic writing is that we join the collective conversation by incorporating into our writing the ideas and quotes of other writers and thinkers. It s twelve o clock and i don t want my coach to turn into a pumpkin 2. This handout worksheet includes exercises for students that give them practice using parenthetical citations in mla format integrating quotes into sentences and paraphrasing sources effectively.
Generally when we converse with other writers on the page we quote summarize or paraphrase. Incorporating quotes introducing quotes. To change verbs or other parts of the original quotes when necessary.
Paul s mother in the rocking horse winner doesn t love her children. Integrating quotations into sentences it s all about the punctuation. Integrating quotations into sentences practice quotations quiz.
You should never have a quotation standing alone as a complete sentence or worse yet as an incomplete sentence in your writing. I found myself writing the same comments on paper after paper after paper until i realized i needed to spend more class time having the students practice integrating quotations outside of their essays. The introductory phrase introductory phrases with the proper.
Michael briggs created date. You should never have a quotation standing alone as a complete sentence or worse as an incomplete sentence in your writing. Integrating quotations exercise author.
The quotation will seem disconnected from your own thoughts and from the flow of your sentences. Integrating your own quotes. Practice integrating quotes using the three basic methods of quote integration.
Quote integration practice 2b use brackets or ellipses. Practice method 4 by integrating the author s words into your own sentence. You may have to change or eliminate a phrase in the first sentence in order to incorporate the quote jem constantly tells scout that she needs to leave him alone because she pesters him with concerns about his safety.
Each of these strategies has its own benefits and challenges. Incorporate scout s quote in a sentence of your making changing the past tense forms of the verbs to present tense. Stop acting like a girl.
