Embedding

Quotes
**turn to page 6 in your Writers Survival
Guide
Why use quotes in your essay?
1. To prove that your ideas are VALID.
2. To illustrate your POINT.
3. To demonstrate how you arrived at an
OPINION of your own.
Quotations can never stand by
themselves.

They must be INTRODUCED and
EXPLAINED.
Avoid dropped quotes
Aslan transforms Eustace back into a boy by
bathing him in a well. It smarted like anything,
but only for a moment (Lewis 109).

Although it was painful when Aslan transformed
Eustace into a boy, it hurt only for a moment
(Lewis 109).
Instead
use
context
Use LEAD-INS
A quote can be smoothly integrated into the
sentence by using a LEAD-IN. This gives the
quote CONTEXT.
See your notes for examples of lead-ins:

*** Use PRESENT tense.

Steinbeck states ________ (123).
Aslan appears when it is most needed, and a
surprised Lucy exclaims, __________ (178).
How do you show context? What is the most
important part?
This was an evil beyond thinking. The killing of a man was not so evil as the
killing of a boat. For a boat does not have sons, and a boat cannot protect
itself, and a wounded boat does not heal.

Steinbeck describes the killing of a man was not so evil as
the killing of a boat, when he revealed Kinos canoe had
been destroyed.

As Kino was planning to escape, he realized his canoe had
been vandalized, an evil beyond thinking.



LEAD-IN
LEAD-IN
How do you show context? What is the most
important part?

He had turned into a dragon while he was asleep.
Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish
thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon himself.

Eustace sneaks away and finds treasure in a hidden
cave; through magic and his greedy, dragonish
thoughts in his heart he is turned into a dragon.
Now you try Embed these quotes
1. In your world, I have another name. You
should know me by it (Lewis 203).

1. It was, however, clear to everyone that
Eustaces character had been rather
improved by becoming a dragon. He was
anxious to help (Lewis 126).