What's Missing? Citing Sources

What is a direct quote?

• Something you think heard someone say

• Writing a fact in your own words

• Using a piece of information from the text without changing any of the words

Why would you want to use a direct quote in your writing?

• As evidence to answer a question about the text

• To emphasize an important fact to your reader

• It's easier than thinking of your own information

• As evidence to answer a question about the text OR to emphasize an important fact to the reader

What two pieces of information do you need to include when you cite a direct quote?

• title and page number

• title and author

• quotation marks and parentheses

Quotations marks go around the...

• direct quote

• author's name

• the book title

What's missing from this quote?

In the book Sea Turtles by Kerly Loja, it says that Sea turtles have a salt gland to rid their bodies of excess salt from the ocean.

• quotation marks

• parentheses

• author

• title

What's missing from this quote?

In the book by Bobbie Kalman it says, "There are only 3,000 to 5,000 Komodo dragons left on Earth."

• quotation marks

• author

• title

What's missing from this direct quote?

In the book exploring Mars it says, "In 2015, scientists discovered flowing water on Mars."

• quotation marks

• title

• author

What's missing from this direct quote?

"Velociraptor fossils have only been found in Mongolia."

• quotation marks

• author and title

• author

• title

What's missing from this direct quote?

According to Anna Claybourne who wrote the book Humpback Whales, Whales are sea creatures, but they developed from land mammals.

• author

• title

• author and title

• quotation marks

What's missing from this quote?

Louise and Richard Spilsbury said that "More than half the world's volcanoes are found around the edges of the Pacific Ocean where plates meet."

• author

• title

• quotation marks