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HOW TO QUOTE?

PROSE

1) long quotation

a) set off long quotes (longer then 4 lines) by indentionb) introduce them with a colon (:)

c) double space them

d) do not use quotation marks

e) put a period at the end

f) state the author of the book (if not mentioned before the quote) and page number in

the brackets

Metal coins replaced bartering. Then paper money became more convenient to

use then metal coins not only because it is easy to handle but also because, as Certon

and OTool say inEncounters with the Future, it has other advantages:

Printing more zeroes is all it takes on a bill to increase its value. Careful

engraving makes it easy to recognize and difficult to counterfeit. The fact that

private individuals cannot create it at will keeps it sacre. Karl Marxs once said

that paper money was valued only insofar as it represents gold but that may

never have been true. (188)

2. short quotation

a) incorporate them in your text and enclose in quotation marks

b) put the authors name and page number in the parenthesis

c) put the period at the end

Thoreaus Walden is one of theten books that shaped America (Yardley 24).

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POETRY

1) long quotation

a) set off long quotes (longer then 3 lines) by indention

b) introduce them with a colon (:)




f) state the author of the book (if not mentioned before the quote) and number of verse in

the parenthesis

In London William Blake expressed his horror of institutional callousness:

How the Chimney sweepers cry

Every blackning Church Appals;

And the hapless Soldiers sigh

Runs in blood down Palace walls. (9-12)

2. short quotation


b) a slash with a space on each side indicates the divisions between the lines

When in Mr. Floods Party the hero sets down to jug his feet, as a mother lays

her sleeping child / Down tenderly, fearing it may awake, one feels Robinsons heart

to be quite simply on his sleeve.

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DRAMA

1) long quotation

a) set off long quotes (longer then 3 lines) by indention

b) introduce them with a colon (:)




f) use the upper case for name of the character, followed by a colon

g) indent the name of the character by ten spaces and all other lines should be indented

additional three spaces below characters name

h) forverse plays, state the author of the play (if not mentioned before the quote)

followed by act, scene, and number of lines in the parenthesis

i) formodern plays state the author of the play (if not mentioned before the quote)

followed by page number

VERSE PLAY:

By the end of the 16th century, Shakespeare wroteRichard III, a play of a lame,

disfigured character whose body manifests all the greed and evilness of his heart and soul:

GLOUCESTER: I, that am curtaild of this fair proportion,

Cheated of feature by dissembling nature,

Deformed, unfinishd, sent before my time

Into this breathing world, scarce half made up,

And that so lamely and unfashionable

That dogs bark at me when I halt by them; (1.1.18-23)

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MODERN PLAY:

How great a handicap pity can be is familiar to Don in Butterflies Are Free. He does

not want to be pitied because he does not admit that blindness is a reason for pity:

DON: Listen, the one thing that drives me up the wall is pity. I dont want and I

dont need it. Please-dont feel sorry for me. I dont feel sorry for me, so why

should you? (Gershe 15)

2. short quotation


b) a slash with a space on each side indicates the divisions between the lines

c) put act, scene and number of lines in the brackets

d) a period comes after the parenthesis

In HamletShakespeare presents the most famous soliloquy in the history of the

theatre: To be, or not to be (3.1.56-89).

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