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Practice Embedding a Passage

Practice Embedding a Passage. You need to know how to do this for the ESA essay not embedded=not passing . What does “embedding” mean?. To enclose or surround closely (Merriam-Webster Dictionary).

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Practice Embedding a Passage

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  1. Practice Embedding a Passage You need to know how to do this for the ESA essay not embedded=not passing

  2. What does “embedding” mean? To enclose or surround closely (Merriam-Webster Dictionary). In an essay it means that you surround the passage with your own words. You lead into the passage with your words.

  3. Example of Embedding During Nick and Gatsby’s drive to lunch in New York, Gatsby claims he is “ ‘the son of some wealthy people in the Middle West’ ” (Fitzgerald 65). The red phrase embeds the passage from the novel into the writer’s sentence. Three quotation marks are required because Gatsby is talking in the passage. Two “xx” to indicate that I am quoting Fitzgerald’s book and another one ‘xx’ to indicate that Gatsby is talking in the passage. This is only required if the selected passage contains dialogue.

  4. Degrees of Sophistication in Embedding The most basic (minimal mastery or C) style embedding = Gatsby says, “ ‘I am the son of some wealthy people in the Middle West’ ” (Fitzgerald 65). A better style of embedding (B) makes the passage smoothly flow in the sentence. For example On Nick and Gatsby’s drive to lunch in New York, Gatsby claims, “ ‘I am the son of some wealthy people in the Middle West’ ” (Fitzgerald 65). The best style (A) of embedding flawlessly incorporates the passage into the sentence. For example During Nick and Gatsby’s drive to lunch in New York, Gatsby claims to be“ ‘the son of some wealthy people in the Middle West’ ” (Fitzgerald 65).

  5. Some tools to use In order to show you are leaving words out of the passage, the writer can use an ellipsis—three periods in a row (…). For example, On Nick and Gatsby’s drive to lunch to New York, Gatsby claims to be “ ‘the son of some wealthy people …all dead now…educated at Oxford’” (Fitzgerald 65). Use the ellipsis if you leave out words in the middle the passage. If you use just a short passage (about five words), no ellipsis needed. Or if the sentence is grammatically incorrect in context with the essay and sentence, changes can be made by using brackets around the [word] or [around the words] being changed to make the sentence grammatically correct. For example, When asked for his opinion of Gatsby, Nick “[begins] the generalized evasions which that question deserves” (Fitzgerald 65).

  6. You Practice Directions: Embed (incorporate) this passage into a sentence. Lead into the passage with the appropriate context. “ ‘Take ‘em down-stairs and give ‘em back to whoever they belong to. Tell ‘em all Daisy’s change’ her mine’” (Fitzgerald 76). Tips: 1. Go back to page 76 and reread what is happening so you can provide accurate context. 2. You don’t have to use all of the passage. You can use key phrases to help flawlessly incorporate the passage into your sentence.

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