Citing Evidence

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Quoting Text

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Quotes are most often used to provide text evidence in support of an answer.

When you want to use a quote
from a source:
•use a sentence frame

•copy the exact words

•use quotation marks

•cite the evidence

Sentence Frames

According to the text/passage/article…

In the text __________, it says…

The author/text stated that…

On page __ of the text, the author says…

The author of ____________ explained

that…

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Frame It!

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Directions: Use a sentence frame to rewrite each quote below.

Quote: “I waited outside for a few minutes, and the teacher came out and said,
“Sorry, the class is not open to deaf individuals. Go back to the dorm.”

Quote: "I was just asking for basic needs; I didn’t have a way to communicate."

Quote: “While I was in prison, they had no American Sign Language (ASL) interpreters. None of the staff knew sign language,
not the doctors or the nurses, the mental health department, the administration, the chaplain, the mailroom. Nobody."

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Punctuating Quotes

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When you quote text, copy the exact words that another author wrote. This could be from a book, an article, a website, or another
source. When you quote text, put the words that you’ve copied in quotation marks and tell the reader where you got the
information.

Example

According to the author of The World’s Most Majestic Mountains,
“Mt. Everest is over 60 million years old.”

The author stated that “The average lifespan of a toucan in the wild is 20 years.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. says, “The time is always right to do what is right.”

Directions: Add punctuation to the sentences below.
The exact quotes are in italics so you know where to put the quotation marks.

1. The author stated that They housed us sometimes with blind folks, which for me made communication impossible.

2. According to Jeremy Woody, as told to Christie Thompson I was writing back and forth to the guard, and he said he couldn’t write

   because it’s considered personal communication, and it was against prison policy for guards to have a personal relationship with inmates.

   and it was against prison policy for guards to have a personal relationship with inmates.