Quick-Reference Guide for Integrating Quotations

1.) Less defensible were the dial-o-matic press releases faxed out by the mainstream groups, greenwashing Salazar’s dismal
record. Here’s Carl Pope, CEO of the Sierra Club, who fine-tuned this kind of rhetorical airbrushing during the many traumas of
the Clinton years:

The Sierra Club is very pleased with the nomination of Ken Salazar to head the Interior
Department. As a Westerner and a rancher, he understands the value of our public lands, parks,
and wildlife and has been a vocal critic of the Bush Administration’s reckless efforts to sell-off
our public lands to Big Oil and other special interests. Senator Salazar has been a leader in
protecting places like the Roan Plateau and he has stood up against the Bush administration’s
dangerous rush to develop oil shale in Colorado and across the West. (67)

2.) Debord summarizes this argument in the following statement, "When economic necessity yields to the necessity for
limitless economic development, the satisfaction of basic and generally recognized human needs gives way to an uninterrupted
fabrication of psuedo-needs” (72).

3.) "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times," writes Charles Dickens of the eighteenth century (23).

4.) For Charles Dickens the eighteenth century was both "the best of times" and "the worst of times" (25).

5.) Joseph Conrad writes of the company manager in Heart of Darkness, "He was obeyed, yet he inspired neither love nor
fear, nor even respect" (55).

6.) "He was obeyed," writes Joseph Conrad of the company manager in Heart of Darkness, "yet he inspired neither love nor
fear, nor even respect" (55).

7.) At the conclusion of Lord of the Flies, Ralph and the other boys realize the horror of their actions:

The tears began to flow and sobs shook him. He gave himself up to them now for the first time on the island;
great, shuddering spasms of grief that seemed to wrench his whole body. His voice rose under the black smoke
before the burning wreckage of the island; and infected by that emotion, the other little boys began to shake and
sob too. (186)

8.) In the following incisive analysis of America's "culture of consumption" from The Culture of Narcissism, Lasch argues
that once modern manufacturers realized that manning the factory was only part of a worker's job, they set about training the
worker to fit the needs of the other part of his job: to be a consumer, to be "perpetually unsatisfied, restless, anxious, and bored"
(77).

9.) In the early days of industrial capitalism, employers saw the Workingman as no more than a beast of burden – "a man of
the type of the ox," in the words of the efficiency expert Frederick W. Taylor (69).

10.) "Mass production," said the Boston department store magnate Edward A. Filenein 1919, "demands the education of
the masses; the masses must learn to behave like human beings in a mass production world. . . . They must achieve, not mere
literacy, but culture" (99). In other words, the modern manufacturer has to "educate" the masses in the culture of consumption.
The mass production of commodities in ever-increasing abundance demands a mass market to absorb them.

11.) Advertising, said Calvin Coolidge, "is the method by which the desire is created for better things" (109). The attempt to
"civilize" the masses has now given rise to a society dominated by appearances – the society of the spectacle.

12.) "When economic necessity yields to the necessity for limitless economic development," writes Guy Debord, "the
satisfaction of basic and generally recognized human needs gives way to an uninterrupted fabrication of pseudo-needs" (446).

13.) Paul Nystrom, an early student of modern marketing, once noted that industrial civilization gives rise to a "philosophy of
futility," a pervasive fatigue, a "disappointment with achievements" that finds an outlet in changing the "more superficial things in
which fashion reigns" (78). The tired worker, instead of attempting to change the conditions of his work, seeks renewal in
brightening his immediate surroundings with new goods and services.

14.) Introduce the quotation with a complete sentence and a colon.

In "Where I Lived, and What I Lived For," Thoreau states directly his purpose for going into the woods: "I went to the woods
because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and
not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived" (89).

Thoreau's philosophy might be summed up best by his repeated request for people to ignore the insignificant details of life:
"Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he
may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!" (65).

Thoreau ends his essay with a metaphor: "Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in" (26).

15.) Use an introductory or explanatory phrase, but not a complete sentence, separated from the quotation with a comma.
In "Where I Lived, and What I Lived For," Thoreau states directly his purpose for going into the woods when he writes, "I went
to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it
had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived" (125).

Thoreau suggests the consequences of making ourselves slaves to progress when he writes, "We do not ride on the railroad; it
rides upon us" (566).

Thoreau asks, "Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life?" (89).

According to Thoreau, "We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us" (566).

You should use a comma to separate your own words from the quotation when your introductory or explanatory phrase ends
with a verb such as "says," "said," "thinks," "believes," "pondered," "recalls," "questions," and "asks" (and many more). You
should also use a comma when you introduce a quotation with a phrase such as "According to Thoreau."

16.) Make the quotation a part of your own sentence without any punctuation between your own words and the words you are
quoting.
In "Where I Lived, and What I Lived For," Thoreau states directly his purpose for going into the woods when he writes that "I
went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what
it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived" (125).

Thoreau suggests the consequences of making ourselves slaves to progress when he writes that "We do not ride on the railroad;
it rides upon us" (566).

Thoreau argues that "shams and delusions are esteemed for soundest truths, while reality is fabulous" (56).

According to Thoreau, people are too often "thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on the rails”
(89).

Notice that the word "that" is used in three of the examples above, and when it is used as it is in the examples, "that" replaces
the comma which would be necessary without "that" in the sentence. You usually have a choice, then, when you begin a
sentence with a phrase such as "Thoreau says." You either can add a comma after "says" (Thoreau says, "quotation") or you
can add the word "that" with no comma (Thoreau says that "quotation.")

17.) Use short quotations--only a few words--as part of your own sentence.
In "Where I Lived, and What I Lived For," Thoreau states that his retreat to the woods around Walden Pond was motivated by
his desire "to live deliberately" and to face only "the essential facts of life" (75).

Thoreau argues that people blindly accept "shams and delusions" as the "soundest truths," while regarding reality as "fabulous"
(99).

Although Thoreau "drink[s] at" the stream of Time, he can "detect how shallow it is" (56).

When you integrate quotations in this way, you do not use any special punctuation. Instead, you should punctuate the sentence
just as you would if all of the words were your own. No punctuation is needed in the sentences above in part because the
sentences do not follow the pattern explained above: there is not a complete sentence in front of the quotations, and a word such
as "says," "said," or "asks" does not appear directly in front of the quoted words.

Note: All of the methods above for integrating quotations are correct, but you should avoid relying too much on just one
method. You should instead use a variety of methods.