![The classroom was noisy as the MUN students filed in[. . .] Mr. Mustard began in
the middle of the program, and the room quieted down as we strained to hear the
narrator’s voice:
I look up at the buildings, these immense buildings They are so
enormous. And along the edges of each enormous building are the
nets. Because right at the time that I am making this visit, there has
been an epidemic of suicides at the Foxconn plant. Week after week,
worker after worker has been climbing all the way up to the tops of
these enormous buildings, and then throwing themselves off, killing
themselves in a brutal and public manner, not thinking very much
about just how bad this makes Foxconn look. Foxconn's response to
month after month of suicides has been to put up these nets. (Mr.
Daisey and the Apple Factory)
For example, when citing more than
four lines of prose, use the following
example:
Hanging
indent for long
quotation: 10
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Quotations mla style
- 1. INTEGRATING QUOTATIONS MLA STYLE Make sure you have integrated your quotations correctly
- 2. You must introduce your quotation • So, you have your long quotation, and you are all ready to jump off of it to start your narrative portion of the essay. There is a bit of a trick here, though. You can’t just begin your essay with a quotation from the book. You have to introduce it to the reader. • There are a number of ways to do this. One way is to briefly introduce the novel and the author. Another way is to summarize the context of quotation before you present it. Then after it, you can do a brief explanation of how it connects to your own story. Or, you can use another introduction, but you must have your own words before you insert a quotation from the novel! • Take a moment and write a brief introduction to your quotation.
- 3. According to the St. Martin's Guide, there are three main ways to set up a signaling phrase: 1. With a complete sentence followed by a colon. – The effects of Auld's prohibition against teaching Douglass to read were quite profound for Douglass: "It was a new and special revelation" (29). 2. With an incomplete sentence, followed by a comma. – Douglass argues that Auld's prohibition against literacy for him was a profound experience, saying, "It was a new and special revelation" (29). 3. With a statement that ends in that. – The importance of Auld's prohibition to Douglass is clear when he states that "It was a new and special revelation" (29).
- 4. Using Attribution Tags • One common error is to put the quotation in a sentence by itself • Quotations need to be introduced and have an attribution tag • Some common attribution tags: – She said, “Yes, I know how to write dialogue.” – “That’s not correct, you know,” he claimed. – “If not,” he asked, “then what is?”
- 5. Take, for example, this section from a student paper: Incorrect: Katniss doesn’t respond to Cinna’s statement, but she agrees in her head. “He’s right, though. The whole rotten lot of them is despicable” (65). Correct: Katniss doesn’t respond to Cinna’s statement, but she agrees in her head: “He’s right, though. The whole rotten lot of them is despicable” (65). Or Correct: Katniss doesn’t respond to Cinna’s statement. However, she thinks, “He’s right, though. The whole rotten lot of them is despicable” (65).
- 6. Long quotations • For quotations that are more than four lines of prose, place quotations in a free-standing block of text and omit quotation marks. Start the quotation on a new line, with the entire quote indented one inch from the left margin; maintain double-spacing. Only indent the first line of the quotation by an additional quarter inch if you are citing multiple paragraphs. Your parenthetical citation should come after the closing punctuation mark. When quoting verse, maintain original line breaks. (You should maintain double- spacing throughout your essay.)
- 7. The classroom was noisy as the MUN students filed in[. . .] Mr. Mustard began in the middle of the program, and the room quieted down as we strained to hear the narrator’s voice: I look up at the buildings, these immense buildings They are so enormous. And along the edges of each enormous building are the nets. Because right at the time that I am making this visit, there has been an epidemic of suicides at the Foxconn plant. Week after week, worker after worker has been climbing all the way up to the tops of these enormous buildings, and then throwing themselves off, killing themselves in a brutal and public manner, not thinking very much about just how bad this makes Foxconn look. Foxconn's response to month after month of suicides has been to put up these nets. (Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory) For example, when citing more than four lines of prose, use the following example: Hanging indent for long quotation: 10 spaces
- 8. When citing two or more paragraphs, use block quotation format, even if the passage is fewer than four lines. Indent the first line of each quoted paragraph an extra quarter inch. Katniss thinks about how difficult it would be to get a meal like this in District 12: What must it be like, I wonder, to live in a world where food appears at the press of a button? How would I spend the hours I now commit to combing the woods for sustenance if it were so easy to come by? What do they do all day, these people in the Capitol, besides decorating their bodies and waiting around for a new shipment of tributes to roll in and die for their entertainment? I look up and find Cinna’s eyes trained on mine. ‘How despicable we must seem to you,’ he says. (65) Katniss doesn’t respond to Cinna’s statement, but she agrees in her head: “He’s right, though. The whole rotten lot of them is despicable” (65). Although our world does not really….. Indent 12.5 Indent 12.5