Integrating Quotes into the Research Paper

Which answer below signifies that you are NOT plagiarizing a quote/source?

• Copying/pasting from a source, not using quotation marks, and passing the words off as your own

• Copying/pasting from a source and merely changing a few words here and there

• Pasting a quote with quotation marks from a credible source into your paper and citing it using the author's last name & page.

• Using quotation marks but forgetting to CITE your sources

When Miss Staats asks you to sandwich your quotes, what does she mean?

• Add a quote, follow up with another quote, and explain both together.

• Explain the quote in my own words, explain what a researcher said, add the quote.

• Introduce the quote using an expert's opinion, add the quote, follow up with another quote.

• Introduce the quote in my own words, add the quote, and explain its importance in my own words.

Which is the best way to integrate this quote?

• To show how different she and Prim are, Katniss explains, "I don't bother suggesting Prim learn how to hunt. I tried to teach her a couple times and it was disastrous" (Collins 5).

• Katniss explains to the reader how different she and Prim are. "I don't bother suggesting Prim learn how to hunt. I tried to teach her a couple times and it was disastrous."

• Katniss explains: "I don't bother suggesting Prim learn how to hunt. I tried to teach her a couple times and it was disastrous." (Collins 5).

• To show how different she and Prim are, Katniss says: "I don't bother suggesting Prim learn how to hunt. I tried to teach her a couple times and it was disastrous." (Collins 5).

Select the option below that is NOT an example of plagiarism.

• Copying/pasting from a source, not using quotation marks, and passing the words off as your own

• Copying/pasting from a source and merely changing a few words here and there

• Pasting a quote with quotation marks from a credible source into your paper and citing it using the author's last name and page.

• Using quotation marks but forgetting to CITE your sources

Choose the answer choice that uses correct MLA format.

• "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen." (Orwell 1).

• "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen," (Orwell 1).

• "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen" (Orwell 1).

• "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen" (Orwell, 1).

Choose the answer with correct MLA format.

• "Seek freedom and become captive to your desires; seek discipline and find your liberty." (Hebert, 324).

• "Seek freedom and become captive to your desires; seek discipline and find your liberty" (Hebert 324)

• "Seek freedom and become captive to your desires; seek discipline and find your liberty" (Hebert pg 324).

• "Seek freedom and become captive to your desires; seek discipline and find your liberty" (Hebert 324).

True or false: It's okay to drop in a quote all by itself, without any of your own words before.

• True

• False

Which of the following is an acceptable embed?

• People spend more when they use a credit card, "[cash] no longer becomes a tangible item" (Lombardo 11).

• In the article, it states, "It no longer becomes a tangible item" (Lombardo 11).

• Lombardo says, "it no longer becomes a tangible item" (Lombardo 11).

• Lombardo says people spend more when they use a credit card because cash "no longer becomes a tangible item" (11).

What punctuation mark do you use to shorten a quote?

• Ellipsis

• Colon

• Hyphen

• Dash

Which of the following is cited correctly in MLA style?

• Aers and Stanley stress "the urgency of recovering [the] cultural context" of fourteenth-century English thought regarding religion (1996, p. 271).

• Aers and Stanley stress "the urgency of recovering [the] cultural context" of fourteenth-century English thought regarding religion (271).

• Aers and Stanley (1996) stress "the urgency of recovering [the] cultural context" of fourteenth-century English thought regarding religion (p. 271).

• Aers and Stanley stress "the urgency of recovering [the] cultural context" (271) of fourteenth-century English thought regarding religion.