Quotation

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Quotation

1. Separate QUOTATION
2. Integrated QUOTATION
3. Using ellipsis

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Outline

• Purposes
• Separated, but not indented.
• Separated, and indented.
• Integrated.
• More Examples Separated vs. Integrated.
• Ellipses
• References

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1. Purposes

• Purposes avoid plagiarism, increase credibility
  by giving evidence or support, for close
  analysis.
• Kinds paraphrase and direct quote (further
  divided into separated and integrated)
• Things to Consider
• Whether the quotes are supportive or distractive.
  (Dont let the quotes to speak for you.)
• Punctuation format
• Smoothing the syntax with transitions, etc.
• USING ELLIPSES and other alterations of sources.

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2. Separated Quotation

• St. Paul declared, "It is better to marry than to
  burn."
• In his first epistle to the Corinthians, St. Paul
  commented on lust "It is better to marry than to
  burn. (a separate unit of the sentence.)

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2. Separated (2)

• Student Sample 2
• When Jimmy was a child, he knew that he had the
  talent of painting. Yet, it was until Jimmy was
  junior grade in his senior high school he knew
  that he could go to the art school. In my first
  grade in junior high school, I was the champion
  in painting competition in my second grade, I
  was the second in my third grade, I was the
  third, says Jimmy with smiling. However, because
  people think that its useless to paint, and he
  also thinks that its not a big deal for knowing
  how to paint, Jimmy never thought that he would
  be an artist in the future. Thus, it was until
  my junior year in senior high that I knew I could
  go to the art department, continues Jimmy.
• (used well in cases of interview and speeches
  tense, transitions, topic sentence)

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2. Separated -- Improvement

• Student Sample 2 (tense, transitions, topic
  sentence)
• Jimmy started his artist career very late in his
  life. He knew that he had the talent for
  painting since childhood. In my first grade in
  junior high school I was the champion in a
  painting contest in my second grade, I was the
  second in my third grade, I was the third,
  recalled Jimmy with both a sense of fun and
  pride. However, Jimmy never thought then that he
  would be an artist in the future, since nobody,
  including himself, saw painting as useful. In his
  last year in high school, surprisingly, he
  decided he would go to an art department.

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2. Separated Quotation (3)

• Student Sample 3
• Yet, because Jimmy didnt have confident about
  his painting when he entered college and because
  he thought that being an artist might be hungry
  to death, he turned into design group. Unlike
  other classmates, acknowledges Jimmy, I didnt
  have a lot of passion towards painting. After
  graduated, Jimmy entered into advertisement area.
  Several years passed by, Jimmy began to have the
  desire of painting. Thus, Jimmy says, I started
  to paint no matter I am eating or working. Then,
  One of his co-workers brought his paintings to
  Crown Publisher. Jimmy started to paint for
  newspapers and some famous writers. However,
  because the salary wasnt high, he quitted.

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2. Separated Quotation (3) --improvement

• Student Sample 3
• However, without confidence and with all the
  knowledge that arts mean hunger, Jimmy chose the
  Graphic Design section of his department. Unlike
  some of my classmates, acknowledged Jimmy, I
  didnt have a lot of passion towards painting.
  After graduation, Jimmy entered into
  advertisement and settled down as a graphic
  designer. After several years, Jimmy began to
  have the desire for painting, which got to be so
  strong that he painted while he was eating or
  working. Then, one of his co-workers brought his
  paintings to Crown Publisher. Jimmy started to do
  illustration for some newspapers and some famous
  writers. However, because the salary wasnt high,
  he quit

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3. separated and indented

• Perhaps it is the unavoidable fate for Lennie
  that he killed Curleys wife when he tried to
  keep her quiet. (gap) For Lennie, there is no
  difference between the puppy and Curleys wife, a
  human being
• Lennie went back and looked at the dead girl.
  The puppy lay close to her. Lennie picked it up.
  Ill throw him away, he said. Its bad
  enough like it is.(100)
• Therefore, the novel communicated most intensely
  of unconventional morality.(Levant 138) For
  readers, Lennie is guiltless though he killed
  Curleys wife.
• (The quote remains unexplained.) (see correction)

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3. separated and indented Correction

• Perhaps it is inevitable for Lennie to kill
  Curleys wife when he tried to keep her quiet.
  For Lennie, there is no difference between a
  puppy and Curleys wife, a human being. After he
  killed both of them, he picked up the puppy
  because Its bad enough like it is.(100). In
  showing Lennie to be still sympathetic, the novel
  communicates most intensely a kind of
  unconventional morality(Levant 138), and exempt
  Lennie from any sense of guilt.

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3. Separated and Indented

• As for the novels, Atwood's debut The Edible
  Woman locates her vital position in Canadian
  literature. transition For Atwood, "literature
  is a means to cultural and personal
  self-awareness. In her opinion, Canada's
  central reality is the act of survival Canadian
  life and culture are decisively shaped by the
  demands of a harsh environment. Closely related,
  in Atwood's view, to this defining act of
  survival is the Canadian search for territorial
  identity"(who said it? 21). Thus in Atwood's
  novels, the characters, especially the female
  protagonists, are the representation of seeking
  for survival and quest for self-identity.
• (The quote 1) should be more than four lines and
  thus put in a separate paragraph with
  indentation 2) is too long.)

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4. Separated and Indented Correction

• As for the novels, Atwood's debut The Edible
  Woman locates her vital position in Canadian
  literature. transition For Atwood,
• . . . Literature is a means to cultural and
  personal self-awareness. Canada's central
  reality is the act of survival Canadian life and
  culture are decisively shaped by the demands of a
  harsh environment. Closely related, in Atwood's
  view, to this defining act of survival is the
  Canadian search for territorial identity. (who
  said it? 21)
• Thus in Atwood's novels, the characters,
  especially the female protagonists, are the
  representation of seeking for survival and quest
  for self-identity.
• (The quote still is too long, and the paragraph
  not coherent.)

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3. Separated -Correction

• (getting a topic sentence reducing irrelevant
  parts)
• In Atwood's novels, the characters, especially
  the female protagonists, seek for survival and
  self-identity. For Atwood, "Canada's central
  reality is the act of survival Canadian life and
  culture are decisively shaped by the demands of a
  harsh environment. Closely related, in Atwood's
  view, to this defining act of survival is the
  Canadian search for territorial identity"(Name
  21). For instance, Atwood's debut, The Edible
  Woman, deal with a womans attempt to survive in
  a city where humans are eating up one another.
  (More on this novel, or the other novels by
  Atwood. )

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4. Integrated Quotations

• Separated
• As points out, For Mrs. Warren to be a
  prostitute and want her daughter to be
  respectable would be hypocritical only if her
  original motive for entering the profession had
  been an innate love for it, rather than a
  realization that solid material foundations are
  the precondition for any hope of a better life
  ?74?.
• Integrated (syntax smoothed)
• Mrs. Warren is not hypocritical in wanting her
  daughter to be respectable, since her
  motivation for going into the business of
  prostitution is not, as put it, an innate love
  for it but a realization that solid material
  foundations are the precondition for any hope of
  a better life ?74?.

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4. Integrated

• As a professor of history, Tony tells her
  students, history is a construct,any point of
  entry is possible and all the choices are
  arbitrary(4).
• Correction As a professor of history, Tony tells
  her students that history is a construct, . .
  . ,any point of entry is possible and all the
  choices are arbitrary(4).

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4. integrated

• it points out in Critical that it was
  inevitable that Humanist interest in the Latin
  and Greek classics should also produce a new kind
  of English tragedy(221).
• Corrections
• Critical Reader points out that it was
  inevitable that Humanist interest in the Latin
  and Greek classics should also produce a new kind
  of English tragedy(221).
• Emphasis placed on a certain idea
• Critical Reader points out that with
  contemporary humanist interest in the Latin and
  Greek classics, producing a new kind of English
  tragedy was inevitable(221).

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5. Separated vs. Integrated Quotation (1)

• Student sample 1
• She says, I took all my notebooks, all my
  manuscripts and ate them page by page, so I could
  take my words with me. Its like she stresses on
  receive ideas and mental elements, and rejects
  materials like dresses and jeans.

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5. Separated vs. Integrated Quotation
--Correction

• Separated She says, I took all my notebooks,
  all my manuscripts and ate them page by page, so
  I could take my words with me, which means that
  she stresses preserving her own ideas and mental
  elements, while rejecting external materials like
  dresses and jeans.
• Integrated While rejecting material things such
  as dresses and jeans, she guards her own words to
  such a degree that she eats her notebook page by
  page, so she could take her words with her.

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5. separated and indented vs. Integrated example
2 -1

• After the princess was born, she then started to
  explore into her self-identity
• The king was so happy about the birth of the
  princess that he held a great celebration. He
  also invited the fairies who lived in his
  kingdom, but because he had only twelve golden
  plates, one had to be left out, for there were
  thirteen of them. The fairies came to the
  celebration, and as it was ending they presented
  the child with gifts. The one promised her
  virtue, the second one gave beauty, and so on,
  each one offering something desirable and
  magnificent. The eleventh fairy had just
  presented her gift when the thirteenth fairy
  walked in. She was very angry that she had not
  been invited and cried out, (contd)

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5. separated and indented vs. Integrated example
2 -2

• "Because you did not invite me, I tell you that
  in her fifteenth year, your daughter will prick
  herself with a spindle and fall over dead." The
  parents were horrified, but the twelfth fairy,
  who had not yet offered her wish, said, "It shall
  not be her death. She will only fall into a
  hundred-year sleep." The king, hoping to rescue
  his dear child, issued an order that all spindles
  in the entire kingdom should be destroyed.
• In this section the role that plays an important
  part in the princess self-identity appears in a
  form of the twelve kind-hearted fairies and the
  thirteenth bad fairy. These senior, wise,
  dignified women signify the model that the young
  girl identifies herself with during the progress
  of growing up. (The quote too long, and
  interpretation not well supported.)

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5. separated and indented vs. Integrated example
2 Correction

• Right after the princess is born, she starts to
  explore her self-identity, one major moment of
  which is her birthday. For her birthday, the
  king invites twelve fairies because he only had
  twelve plates. At the end of it, the fairies
  gives the princess such intangible gifts as
  virtue and beauty. The one fairy that was not
  invited came and, instead of a gift, gave the
  princess a curse falling dead upon being pricked
  by a spindle. These fairies, on a symbolic level
  of the princess self-exploration, represent what
  the princess desires and/or develops in her
  identity as she grows up beauty, virtue, as well
  as curiosity for the unknown.

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Ellipsis

• Improper Besides, in this is my greatest
  performance and all of the actresses who won my
  parts will say. The life for women is like to
  play a role for performance life is an image for
  others. Even when one of the women disappears,
  there are still many women eager to take her
  role.
• Meaning incomplete (like some email writings. ?)

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Ellipsis -revised

• Another source of constraint in this womans life
  is that of playing roles, of which even her death
  is one. Upon her death, the other actresses
  who will take over her role praise it by saying
  how wonderful to let yourself go that mad, how
  wonderful . . . , as if it were a matter of
  performance on the stage.

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Reference Quotation

• Types of quotation punctuation
  http//www.eng.fju.edu.tw/concom_databank/Marguer
  ite/SSW3.htm
• Verbs to use proper format and varying sentence
  structure. http//www.eng.fju.edu.tw/concom_datab
  ank/Marguerite/SSW2.htm