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Title: Can You Put Direct Quotes In A Literature Review?

Writing a literature review can be a daunting task for many students and researchers alike. It involves
not only summarizing existing literature but also critically analyzing and synthesizing information to
support a particular argument or research question. One common question that often arises during this
process is whether it is appropriate to include direct quotes from the sources being reviewed.

The answer is yes, you can put direct quotes in a literature review. However, there are some
guidelines to keep in mind to ensure that the use of direct quotes is effective and appropriate:

1. Relevance: Only include direct quotes that are directly relevant to the point you are making
in your literature review. Quotes should support or illustrate your argument rather than
simply being included for the sake of it.
2. Integration: Integrate direct quotes smoothly into your writing. Avoid dropping quotes into
your text without any context or explanation. Instead, introduce the quote, provide some
background information if necessary, and then present the quote in a way that flows naturally
with the rest of your discussion.
3. Citation: Always provide proper citation for any direct quotes you use. This includes the
author's name, publication year, and page number (if applicable), following the citation style
required by your institution or publisher.
4. Paraphrasing: While direct quotes can be useful for capturing an author's exact wording or
phrasing, it's often more effective to paraphrase the information in your own words. This
demonstrates your understanding of the material and helps maintain the flow of your writing.
5. Balance: Use direct quotes sparingly and strategically. Your literature review should
primarily consist of your own analysis and synthesis of the literature, with direct quotes used
to support or reinforce specific points.

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I'm also a visual thinker and prefer hand written notes so this was an extremely helpful post for me.
Terminology Literature review format Literature review topics and subtopics Locating literature
review sources Choosing appropriate sources Your opinion Bibliography format. It typically includes
the date and time, but can also be accurate to a small fraction of a second. Note that some products
may not work as well without tracking cookies. When you over-use quotes, it is a sign to your
teacher that you don’t know how to paraphrase well. Pronoun consistency inside a quote can also be
achieved by using brackets. Including quotations, even longer ones, is an excellent way to
demonstrate your understanding of the topic in your APA paper, literature review, or APA abstract.
Your professor or audience wants to hear your thoughts or research. I felt lazy and feline, and he
wasn't even in the room. This refers to 4 lines of your paper, not lines in the original source. The best
essays use a maximum of 2 quotes for every 1500 words. Schroder, 2008 Greater the length of
service does not impact on the level of satisfaction. Provide a brief quote in your essay, and then
show you understand it with surrounding explanation and analysis. Use italics to draw attention to a
particular word or words within a quotation. However, it's not a bad thing to have, as you can feed
the ID numbers into PubMed to get a formatted citation list later on down the road. When a system
becomes more work than the benefit it provides, it's not a good system. A direct quote is a statement
that is taken verbatim word for word from a text or speaker. A block quote is a long direct quote that
is separated from the regular text. Figures 6 to 13 show you how to create an APA quotation style in
Word without relying on any formatting that may have already been done. Bradley, 1986; Howard
and Maxwell, 1982; Pike, 1991). Jennifer holds a JD from Indiana University Maurer School of Law
in 2006. Do not use double quotation marks for block quotes. Report this Document Download now
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62 pages Literature Review Uploaded by Waeal J. A project report on consumer preferences in
selected brands (whirlpool, video. The three-step process. STEP 1. Analyse the topic. Read the
question carefully at least three times. The brackets around the space indicate that the s was removed
from the end of the word changes. A review is personal - you're writing a review to express your
thoughts and feelings about a theatre show, not taking an exam. You might also want to paraphrase it
rather than using a direct quotation. His voice in my ear. It did interesting things to me. Now, while
the majority of my lit review was done over the summer, I do find certain topics that I need to
expand on or research anew.
Increased staff workload can reduce productivity, quality of work is related. Spacing is taken care of
by the double line spacing. During the 21 hours that the president's body lay in state in the Capitol
Rotunda, about 250,000 people filed by to pay their respects. (“ November 22, 1963: Death of the
President ”). So appreciated. THE GOLDEN PEACOCK has had a successful 5-star run on
Goodreads and on Amazon. We are trying to provide you the new way to look and use the Tips. I'm
also a visual thinker and prefer hand written notes so this was an extremely helpful post for me. This
indicates that's how the passage appears in the original source, and the error isn't yours. It’s a critical
evaluation of a text, publicaton, object or phenomenon. The material is copied word-for-word from a
source without changes to the original. APA style permits the addition of a noun to quoted text if it is
necessary to clarify the subject of the quotation. The literature review serves as the driving force and
jumping-off point for your own research investigation. Articles downloaded but not reviewed yet do
not have a number (see bottom). For example, in my Major spreadsheet, I might have information on
the study design, location, time period, and disease state. We sometimes reveal how ignorant or
bored we were when we read a book by giving it 5-stars. Just remember to include the author, date,
and page number to show you’re using someone else’s words. For shorter quotes that are fewer than
100 words or approximately 5 lines of text, type them in line with the body of your paper, enclosed in
double quotation marks. In their analysis, Mistry et al. (2016) highlight that there is a misconception
in American society that hard work is enough to escape poverty. In this instance, you still set the
block quote off with an introduction, but you include the author, date, and page number at the end of
your in-text citation. Specify only the timestamp from the beginning of the passage you are quoting.
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pages Writing A Literature Review: by Prof. V. Krishnamohan DCMS, Andhra University Uploaded
by Krishnamohan Vaddadi AI-enhanced title and description This document provides guidelines for
writing a literature review, including introducing the research topic, discussing its importance, and
selecting the most relevant studies. Eventually, the quotes and ideas on my grouped index cards were
typed up into a lit review outline (next section). Each idea or quote from a paper gets it's own index
card, and those cards can be shuffled around to identify themes or topics. This includes academic
and creative writing, personal statements for graduate or professional schools, applications for
internships, and scholarships. Note: You don't have to have the quotation styles in the styles gallery.
We categorized quotes by author's name along with many different topics for readers' convenience in
searching and sharing. Why? Because you will set up APA quotation style in Word once and then:
format all your quotations in APA format with one click. I hardly think that your driver can add
anything noteworthy. The third, and for us the most disturbing cost driver is the excessive over-
emphasis by university. Place a parenthetical with the year after the authors' names, then include a
parenthetical with the page number at the end of the quotation.
Bichard, Dury, Schonfeldt, Moroka, Motau, and Bricas (2005) in their. Play helps children to learn
about their surroundings” (Malaguzzi, 1949, p. 10). Play is better than learning through repetition of
drills or reading. You may find a typographical or grammatical error in a passage that you still want
to quote. This makes it appear that you have an active voice. The specific format you use to cite a
direct quotation varies depending on whether you're writing your paper in Modern Language
Association (MLA), American Psychological Association (APA), or Chicago style. But there are
some specific times when quotation marks belong in your MLA citations, whether they’re in-text
citations or works cited pages. Crowds lined Pennsylvania Avenue and many wept openly as the
caisson passed. If it's a direct quote, be sure to include quotes so that you don't have to second-guess
if it was your paraphrase or a quote (green). 2. Keep the source citations with each statement. So this
is the core of the lit review method that helped me go from disparate research articles into
synthesized topics that not only were written up as sections in my literature review but helped me to
identify the gaps in the field that my dissertation could address. When statistics show that roughly
42% of children born into the bottom level of the income distribution will likely stay there (Isaacs,
2007), this Is a consequence of structural and social barriers.” (Mistry et al., 2016, p. 761). Therefore
poverty in childhood needs to be addressed by the government. Then, I'll describe 2 methods to take
you from reading articles to taking notes to organizing your notes into themes. They are: great time
savings because there is no need to format each quotation every time Also, you do not have to refer
to APA documentation for the format. Studies prior to about the 1990s tended to show that.
However, if the start or stop of your quote interrupts a thought, the ellipsis may be necessary for
clarification. According to Malaguzzi (1949, p. 10), “children have the ability to learn through play
and exploration.” Here, Malaguzzi is highlighting how to play is linked to finding things out about
the world. Do not select OK. Select the Line and Page Breaks tab. (if you do select OK, select the
quotation style from the Styles gallery - because you just created it, select the style, select modify
and continue). Opting out of this will opt you out of all cookies, except for those needed to run the
website. The benefits of using an APA quotation style in Word are significant. A collection of all the
scholarly writings on a topic A systematic method for identifying, evaluating and interpreting the
work produced by researchers. Longer quotations start on a new line and are indented the standard
paragraph indentation. Additionally, it’s important to remember that understanding and appropriately
using the APA citation style can greatly minimize the risk of plagiarism. The page number is then at
the end of the APA block quote. In the reference list, provide a comprehensive reference of the APA
direct quotes. This will open the Styles pane where you will find the quotation styles you have added
(see Figure 16). The literature review serves as the driving force and jumping-off point for your own
research investigation. Articles downloaded but not reviewed yet do not have a number (see bottom).
Such a long quotation can be difficult to follow if kept within the body of your paper. The highlights
below are only to identify different points for this post. Including quotations, even longer ones, is an
excellent way to demonstrate your understanding of the topic in your APA paper, literature review, or
APA abstract. Butler came up with this new idea that gender is just something society has made up
over time.

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