Quotations & Citations

Used to enclose words written/spoken by someone else

• colon

• quotation marks

• ellipses

• forward slashes

(Select all correct answers) You should include a quotation in your writing...

• when you want to back up your thoughts with evidence

• whenever you mention an author

• when you want to include the exact words of someone else

• when you want to plagiarize someone else's thoughts

(Select all correct answers) To include a quotation in your writing, you should do the following:

• Try to embed the quotation within your sentence.

• Make a point, include a quotation, then give an explanation.

• Change a few words of the quotation into your own words.

• Include a quotation for every sentence in your essay.

Which of the following correctly embeds quotations?

• The narrator calls her a "hauntingly beautiful creature." (34)

• The narrator calls her a "hauntingly beautiful creature" (34).

• The narrator call her a "hauntingly beautiful creature. (34)"

Which of the following correctly embeds the quotation?

• When Elizabeth says, "I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine" (Austen, 12) she reveals her acute self-awareness.

• When Elizabeth says, "I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine" she reveals her acute self-awareness (Austen 12).

• When Elizabeth says, "I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine." (12) She reveals her acute self-awareness.

Ideally, you want to embed your quotations within your own sentences.

• True

• False

You should have a comma between the citation information enclosed in parentheses.

• True

• False

(Select all correct answers) Which of the following are correctly punctuated?

• We can see evidence of bias when he calls the government "misguided and completely irresponsible." (Daniels 23)

• He describes the birds as "cheerily chirping in the early day" (Owen 6).

• "Warbling water," (Owen 18) is an example of alliteration.

• According to McKenzie, "the failures of the previous administration are too many to count" (34).