Using Quotes

“It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else.”

~Havelock Ellis

Increase your ethos by knowing how to correctly quote someone else

Introduce Quotes

Using a comma ---• Katherina says, “• Katherina cries, “

Using a colon --- • Katherina ridicules Petruchio: “

Using no punctuation ---

Katherina’s frustration

Citing Shakespeare

• Use Shakespeare’s English

• (Act. Scene. Lines)

• Use / to show line break when (it preserves the iambic pentameter)

• Put the period AFTER the parenthesis• After first seeing Bianca Lucentio exclaims, “I

burn. I pine. I perish, Tranio / if I achieve not this young modest girl” (1.1.153-154).

In-text Citations

• MLA format emphasizes the author• Other, more science based style guides, focus

on the date.• Your citation should include the author’s last

name and the page number parenthetically (Tinker 101).

• Let’s let the experts explain it: Owl at Purdue• http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/74

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Example Citations

• In Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew, Katherina’s consistent ridicule does little to deter Petruchio; she yells, “Asses are made to bear and so are you” (2.1.200). Petruchio’s rebuttal, “Women are made to bear and so are you,” only serves to make him seem more in control, more powerful, and more shrewish (2.1.201). Petruchio is an example of a man who needs women to be untamed. While some men may find complete submissiveness attractive, men like Petruchio – with his desire to dominate, tame, and control anyone below him – will not be interested in women who are tamed.

Works Cited• Final page of your essay

• MLA Format

• Author’s last name by alphabetical• Get’s tricky when quoting an author (in our case, Doyle)

in another author’s work (Edwards).

• A Review• Review Author. "Title of Review (if there is one)."

Rev. of Performance Title, by Author/Director/Artist. Title of Periodical day month year: page. Medium of publication.

• Edwards, Tamala M. “I Surrender Dear.” Rev. of The Surrendered Wife by Laura Doyle. Time Magazine 14 January 2001.