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Essay Writing
Quotation Incorporation
Name:______________________________________________
Block:_______
Directions: Examine the sentence fragments and quotations listed below. Using the
correct format for incorporating the quote and using proper parenthetical citations, you
should incorporate each quotation into its companion sentence.
**All of these quotations are from A Separate Peace by John Knowles
“I would have to back out of it, I would have to disown it.”
Page 62
Gene decides…because his confession will only hurt Finny further.
“Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him.”
Page 33
Gene’s belief that…shows the importance his experiences at Devon have come to play in
his life.
“I think his shortcomings increased is appreciation”
Page 152
Gene’s guilt over having injured Finny is magnified when he realizes that…
“So journeys through the unknown parts of America became my chief war memory…”
Page 130
Though he had anticipated his experiences with the war being violent, Gene finds that…
“What deceived me was my own happiness; for peace is indivisible, and the surrounding
world confusion found no reflection inside me.”
Page 115
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While Finny expresses his disbelief in the war aloud, Gene realizes that the war was also
unreal to him because…
“I did not cry even when I stood watching him being lowered into his family’s straitlaced burial ground outside of Boston.”
Page 186
Gene…even though he had lost his best friend.
I never talked about Phineas and neither did anyone else; he was however present in
every moment of every day since Dr. Stanpole had told me.
Page 194
The fact that…proves how influential Phineas and his beliefs were.
“There was little left at Devon any more which had not been recruited for the war.”
Page 150
Though the boys had felt separate and apart from the war earlier, they soon found that…
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Parenthetical Citations
Whenever using a portion of a text, a quotation from a text, or summarizing a part of a
text, you must give credit to the person(s) who have written that piece. If you do not, you
are plagiarizing that author’s work. When choosing quotations, do not limit yourself to
only what the characters say aloud. Feel free to use private thoughts or commentary
made by the narrator.
Parenthetical citations are written in the following fashion:
When you do not use the author’s name in your sentence:
Unless the quotation
used is a direct
statement from a
character, do not put
a comma before the
incorporated quote.
Quotation marks
appear before the
parenthetical
citation.
One research has found that dreams “move backward in
time as the night progresses” (Dement 71).
Author’s Last Name
No commas
Punctuation appears
after parentheses.
Page Number
***When you have cited only one author’s name throughout a page or essay, you need only
include the page numbers on additional citations (as it appears in the citation below) until you use
information from another source
When you use the author’s name in your sentence or you have very recently cited the
same author in your essay:
Freud states that "a dream is the fulfillment of a wish" (154).
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Works Cited Page
Anytime you have cited a source in your essay, you must provide a works cited
page that includes more specific publishing information. For this essay you will be citing
a book with one author. The following diagram will explain how this should appear:
Author’s Last Name
Book Title
Publisher’s Name
Brown, Dan. The Da Vinci Code. New York: Doubleday, 2003.
Author’s First Name
City in which the book
was published
Year
of
Publication
If your citation should take up more than one line, it should appear as follows:
Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
An American Slave. New York: Penguin Books, 1986.
Indent each of the
additional lines.
Double Space the
Citation
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Incorporating a Quotation
Many times, when writing a paper, you will find that you need to include an
example that uses an author’s exact words. In this case, you need not only to properly
cite the source but also properly incorporate the quotation. For example, the quotation I
would like to use for my essay is:
My mistress was, as I have said, a kind and tenderhearted
woman.
If I wanted to include this in my essay, I might choose to incorporate this
quotation in the following way:
Even when quoting a
text, you must make
sure your sentence is
grammatically
correct. Sometimes,
you need to add a
word or change a
word in order to
accomplish this. If
you change or add
something to a
quotation, you must
put your additions in
brackets.
There is no comma
before the quotation
because this was not
a direct quote from a
character’s dialogue.
Through the majority of Douglass’ experience as a
slave, he was exposed to cruelty and abuse, but there were
If you remove
any part of a
quotation, you
must make
note of the
missing
information by
replacing it
with an ellipses
(…).
those few people like one “mistress [who] was…a kind and
tenderhearted woman” (Douglass 81).
Proper use of
parenthetical
citations
Your
ending
punctuation
will appear
outside of
the
parentheses