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Integrating Quotes into Your Paper
In the following excerpt from Erich Goode’s book Between Politics and
Reason, he explains his belief that drugs should not be legalized:
Rule #1: Look for the quote that says the most within the
shortest amount of space.
“There is, in other words, sufficient ground for genuine concern when it
comes to sharply reducing the cost and increasing the availability of
cocaine, given its intrinsically pleasure-inducing and reinforcing
property.”
“It almost defies logic to assume that, when criminal penalties are
removed, the use of an entire array of pleasurable, highly reinforcing
drugs will not rise significantly.”
Rule #2: A quote should never stand alone. Rather, it needs a
lead-in phrase. After the lead-in phrase, use a comma and
capitalize the first letter of the quote.
As the author states, “It almost defies logic to assume that, when
criminal penalties are removed, the use of an entire array of
pleasurable, highly reinforcing drugs will not rise significantly.”
According to the author, “There is, in other words, sufficient ground for
genuine concern when it comes to sharply reducing the cost and
increasing the availability of cocaine, given its intrinsically pleasure-
inducing and reinforcing property” (Goode 51).
As Erich Goode states, “It almost defies logic to assume that, when
criminal penalties are removed, the use of an entire array of
pleasurable, highly reinforcing drugs will not rise significantly” (51)
Erich Goode claims that “there is, in other words, sufficient ground for
genuine concern when it comes to sharply reducing the cost and
increasing the availability of cocaine, given its intrinsically pleasure-
inducing and reinforcing property” (51).
As the author states, “It almost defies logic to assume that, when
criminal penalties are removed [from drug use], the use of an entire
array of pleasurable, highly reinforcing drugs will not rise significantly.”
Goode argues,
There is, in other words, sufficient ground for genuine concern
when it comes to sharply reducing the cost and increasing the
availability of cocaine, given its intrinsically pleasure-inducing
and reinforcing property. A great deal of contrary evidence would
have to be marshaled to convince evidence-minded observers
that cocaine abuse would not rise sharply under legalization—
and, as yet, no such evidence has been forthcoming.
2. Don’t let the quote speak for you—quotes should support, enhance,
or elaborate on a main point that you’ve already stated.
3. There are far too many gray areas surrounding the rating of website
content. “If the government imposes filtering software then, depending
on how liberal a country is, there are legal battles to decide if the move
us really lawful and to what extent the filtering should be
implemented. Any system put in place can be circumvented by even
the youngest of children with a basic knowledge of computers. In order
for filtering software to become viable from the technological
standpoint, there either needs to be a new methodology produced that
can accurately describe content that can then be used by a filtering
system, and the system be implemented on every website in the
world, or a reliable autonomous filtering system be introduced that can
work out in what context information is being presented.”
4. One author feels that, “a war on Iraq would not shatter the huge
international coalition in the fight on terrorism”.
5. George Bush states, “We must choose between a world of fear and a
world of progress. We cannot stand by and do nothing while dangers
gather. We must stand up for our security.” What George Bush is
saying in this quote is that if we as a nation just sit around and do
nothing, Saddam may very well build and use weapons of mass
destruction on the U.S.
7. According to some analysts, the idea that war will bring about
thousands of jobs is false. USA Today reasons why. “Experts expect
economic benefits to be uneven across the country. And unlike during
WWII, where most workers able to swing a hammer could find a job,
war in Iraq would require fairly sophisticated defense workers.”
8. In the New York Times, it states that “Terrorism emanates from the
Middle East for a reason. The style of politics and religion promoted by
the regimes there … lend support to anti-U.S. terrorism.”