Notes and Student Examples - Quotations and Paraphrasing

Notes: Quotations and Paraphrasing (concrete details)

Quotations - passage matches source word for word and identifies original author with a citation ( “quotation marks ”)

Paraphrasing - putting the passage into your own words. Still identify original author.

Quotations:

* * Put “ ” around what you are borrowing word for word from the source.
* Surround “ ” with correct punctuation. “ ” introduced or followed by said, observed, etc. need a comma.
* Commas/periods ordinarily go inside “ ”.
* Period follows “ ” when sentence ends with a citation in parentheses ( ).
* !, ? can be inside or outside “ ”. If you are asking the question, put ? outside.

Paraphrasing Example
I think that reading #3 of the Watts Article was a very informational piece. I never knew that there were 30,000 gangs in American and with 800,000 members, in 2,500 communities across the United States.

Quotation Example
Eva always thought to never go against “your own people, your own blood.” Eva felt guilty though because Paco murdered some boy. She had to go against her own. She had to because she felt guilty. She thought of her mother when she looked into the boy’s mother’s eyes. She remembered when her father and brother were going to jail. She kept thinking to herself, “how does it feel to be sending an innocent person to prison?” That made her think of her father and how he went to jail. I think that Eva did the right thing because if it was here she would not want to go to jail for something she did not even do. She went against her people but she did the right thing.