RESOURCE FOR YOU! (Reposted from 9/19/14)

In the "Important Links" section of the blog, you will see a new addition - a citing guide!  Please use this if you have any questions!

However, for the purposes of tonight's homework activity, your quotes should look something like this:

"Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah," (Dahl 173).

STEPS:
1.) Put the borrowed words in quotation marks
2.) Replace the end period with a comma (if the end mark is a question mark or an exclamation point, leave it there and do not make it a comma).
3.) End your quotation marks
4.) Add parentheses and put the author's name and the page number from the textbook
5.) Put a period after the parentheses.

OR

If you are taking dialogue for your quote, you need to write your quote differently.
"'Blah blah blah blah blah,' said Billy Weaver," (Dahl 173).

STEPS:
1.) Start with your opening quotation mark.
2.) Then add an apostrophe (one mark of the quotation mark) to show that someone is speaking.
3.) Write the quote.  Where they end their quotation marks add an apostrophe and continue copying the words from the text.
4.)  Replace the end period with a comma (if the end mark is a question mark or an exclamation point, leave it there and do not make it a comma).
5.) End your quotation marks
6.) Add parentheses and put the author's name and the page number from the textbook
7.) Put a period after the parentheses.

OR

If you are omitting part of the quote, you need to use an ellipsis (AKA ... or "dot dot dot").  The ellipsis's job is to show that you're only using part of a longer quote.

"...blah blah blah blah blah blah blah," (Dahl 173).
(shows that the quote you're using actually comes from the middle of a longer sentence)

"Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah..." (Dahl 173).
(shows that the quote you're using continues in a longer sentence)

"Blah blah...blah blah," (Dahl 173).
(shows the reader that you're omitting a part of the quote that doesn't have to do with your point)