Integrating Quotations: Quiz 1 (MLA) - The Nature of Writing.
Accessing this subject requires a login, please enter your credentials below!Seymour: An Introduction allows us to spend time with a generous human being who has found balance and harmony through his love of music.An introduction is the opening paragraph of an essay. It should briefly introduce the topic and outline your key ideas. An introduction might also provide context and try to hook the reader’s.
To quote a critic or researcher, you can use an introductory phrase naming the source, followed by a comma. Note that the first letter after the quotation marks should be upper case. According to MLA guidelines, if you change the case of a letter from the original, you must indicate this with brackets. APA format doesn't require brackets.When to introduce quotes or paraphrases. when you want to use an author as an authoritative voice. to introduce an author's position you may wish to discuss. to provide evidence for your own writing. to make a clear distinction between the views of different authors.
When you are making decisions about how to integrate quotations into your essay, you might imagine that you are reading the essay out loud to an audience. You would not read the parenthetical note. Without some sort of introduction, your audience would not even know that the statement about Roman antiquity was a quotation, let alone where the quotation came from.
