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Quotes and MLA

Quotes and MLA. Wednesday , March 26 2014. Agenda. Start the essay writing process Review of MLA and Works Cited Time to work on your essay planning. Learning Goals. Analyze quotations from The Catcher in the Rye in preparation for the essay

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Quotes and MLA

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  1. Quotes and MLA Wednesday, March 26 2014

  2. Agenda • Start the essay writing process • Review of MLA and Works Cited • Time to work on your essay planning

  3. Learning Goals • Analyze quotations from The Catcher in the Rye in preparation for the essay • Review MLA in-text citations and works cited

  4. When to Cite • Cite quotations taken from the novel and/or movie(s) • Cite someone else's ideas or paraphrased material • if you cannot reword an idea without losing the original message be sure to quote it

  5. In-text Citations • For books, use (author page number) • (Salinger 30) • (Martel 36) • For films, (film name) in italics or underline for handwritten • (The Perks of Being a Wallflower) • (Peter Pan)

  6. Placing quotes within your essay • Do not start off a sentence with a quote! • Make your quote a natural part of your sentence • Ease into your quote: • Introduce the context: • As Holden stands in front of the Museum of Natural History, he reflects on how nothing changes in the museum and that “the only thing that would be different would be you” (Salinger 121). • Introduce the speaker: • Holden’s comment that he is “quite sexy” (Salinger 54) is ironic because of his immaturity.

  7. How to use ellipsis • Ellipses are extremely useful in omitting or shortening quotes • E.g. “I felt so damn happy all of a sudden…I was damn near bawling” (Salinger 213).

  8. Adding info • Put any added information in square brackets • Holden exclaims “she [Phoebe] didn’t come up the steps with me” (Salinger 207). • Or…Holden exclaims the Phoebe “didn’t come up the steps with me” (Salinger 207).

  9. Quoting conversations within the novel • Use single quotation marks for conversations from the book and double quotation marks to mark off that it is from the text • “‘I passed English all right,’ I said, ‘because I had all that Beowulf and Lord Randal My Son stuff when I was at the Whooton School’” (Salinger 10). • Only use the single quotation marks if you are including information outside of the dialogue as part of your quote

  10. Quotes that fall on two pages • (Salinger 8-9) • Salinger 12-13) • (Salinger 122-23)

  11. Long Quotes • Quotes that are longer than four lines are indented, for example: Holden describes Ernie’s playing: I’m not too sure what the name of the song was that he was playing when I came in, but whatever it was, he was really stinking it up. He was putting all these dumb, show-offy ripples in the high notes, and a lot of other very tricky stuff that gives me a pain in the ass. (Salinger 84) • Note that the actual quote is preceded by an introduction and a colon, the entire quote is indented, and the period goes before the citation in this case. • No quotation marks are used for block quotes.

  12. Works Cited • List the items in your works cited list in alphabetical order • The first line of an entry is flush to the margin and any extra lines for that entry are indented • Double space the works cited but do not put an extra space between entries.

  13. Examples • For books: • Author last name, first name. Book title. City of publication: Publisher, year of publication. • For movies • Movie title. Director. Performers. Distributor, year. DVD. Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1951. The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Dir. Stephen Chbosky. Perf. Logan Lerman, Emma Watson, Ezra Miller. Summit Entertainment, 2012. DVD.

  14. Questions about Citing and Works Cited? • Go to Owl Purdue • Has a guide specific to MLA as well as other citation guides • https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/1/

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