How to Frame Quotes

7/30/2019 How to Frame Quotes

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Framing Quotes

Capt Grace Miller


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According To frame

It was Charles Dickens who wrote: Heavenknows, we need never be ashamed of our tears,for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth,overlying our hard hearts (286).

In one of his poems Ogden Nash relates that,when confronted with Robert Burns, Scholarship deep in Homer and Horace / Suddenly go alldock and dorris (7).

It may be true that, as Oscar Wilde remarked,Americas claim to youth is one of its oldestmyths (23).


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The Interrupting Frame

Atomic war, declared a recent editorial in the

London Times, is likely to ruin forever the

nation that even victoriously wages it (2).


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The Separate-Sentence Frame

A mans capable of understanding anything

how the ether vibrates and whats going on in the

sunbut how any man can blow his nose

differently from him, thathes incapable of

understanding (6). Ivan Turgenev, the Russian

novelist, was taking a dig at science when he

wrote these words.


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The Intermittent Frame

As Didion has so poignantly expressed, we

cannot return home to a world that never

changes. Graveyards are vandalized and great-

aunts age. Didion further illustrates the

impossibility of returning to an unchanged past

with teacups that take on newor lose

meaning as time passes (329).


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In the movieBill and Teds Excellent Adventure, thetwo teenage time travelers go back to ancient Greece tomeet Socrates. Upon researching Socrates in theirhistory textbook, Bill and Ted find a quote that definesSocratess perception of wisdom:The only truewisdom consists of knowing that we know nothing.Thats us, dude! Bill exclaims. Of course, Socrates

did not mean that ignorance is wisdom; he simply feltthat men could not be truly wise without being awareof the limits of their wisdom. Unfortunately, suchintellectual humility is not a virtue of modern

science

Humility and the Limits of Knowledge in Modern Science


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1.) Think of a way to draw the reader in. Idea:reference a current event, book, movie, or some

element of pop culture that relates to your topic.Tell a story. Ask a question. Introduce ahypothetical scenario. Identify a paradox.

2.) Transition into discussing your primary source.Briefly summarize it (in one sentence, if you canyou can provide more background later).

3.) Transition into mentioning the modern issue you

will be examining. How do the problems in thisissue relate to the problems your primary sourceaddresses?

4.) End with a clear, concise thesis statement.


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1.) Choose a concept in Socratic/Platonicthought (reality, essence vs. accident, intellect,

wisdom, etc.)

2.) Think of a current event or modern issue thisconcept relates to/informs.

3.) Using the model we just discussed, write an

introduction to a paper that is a discussionbetween the primary source and the current event

you chose. Use at least one quote from any of the

sources provided.

Writing Exercise

How to Frame Quotes

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