Integrating Quotations in Academic Writing

A winner of the Knight Award for Writing Exercises and Handouts, this work originates from Linguistics 1101, Language, Thought, and Reality: Metaphors We Live By. This handout with integrated exercises was developed in response to a problem often seen in students' writing, namely their uncertainty about how to appropriately integrate quotations from secondary sources into their own essays. The handout aims to be a comprehensive guide both to the mechanics of incorporating quotation into writing and to the analytical component of using a quotation to good effect. There are four sections: (1) situations in which use of quotations is appropriate; (2) the grammatical mechanics of appropriately introducing a quotation in a variety of ways; (3) the appropriate analytical and contextual content of introductions to quotations; and (4) the appropriate form and content of quoted material itself. 3 page pd