Integrating Quotations

Incorporating Quotations Into your own writing--Part IICCU Writing Center

All four partsAttributionLimitationIntegrationDocumentation

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The SituationA teacher asks you to analyze President Obamas 2012 State of the Union Address and to consider the Republican response to that Address in your analysis.

Ideas, ideas, ideasThe economy/the recessionManufacturingJobs and unemploymentTax policyEnergy issuesEducation issues

Your PlanTo show how President Obama persuades his audience to be optimistic about the potential for change in this country. He accomplishes this goal by using hopeful and positive language to describe his vision for:the energy crisisthe economyeducationHe also uses negative and pessimistic language to describe the ideas of his opponents and his predecessors.

An Important PassageFrom Pres. Obamas 2012 State of the Union Address:

Weve subsidized oil companies for a century. Thats long enough. Its time to end the taxpayer giveaways to an industry that rarely has been more profitable, and double-down on a clean energy industry that never has been more promising. Pass clean energy tax credits. Create these jobs.

Which words and phrases would you use from this?

Key Words and Phrasesfor a centuryThats long enoughtaxpayer giveawaysdouble downPass clean energy tax credits. Create these jobs.

Put it all togetherPresident Obama described government subsidies of the oil industry as taxpayer giveaways and said that it is time to double down on a clean energy industry that has never been more promising.And--Mr. Obama called on congressional leaders to Pass clean energy credits and almost begged them to Create these jobs.

On the Works Cited pageObama, Barak. Remarks by the President in State of the Union Address. Whitehouse.gov. United States Government. 24 January 2012. Web. 10 May 2012.

For Comparison From the Republican response to Obamas Address:

The extremism that stifles the development of homegrown energy, or cancels a perfectly safe pipeline that would employ tens of thousands, or jacks up consumer utility bills for no improvement in either human health or world temperature, is a pro-poverty policy.--Mitch Daniels, Governor of Indiana

Key Words and Phrasesextremismstifles the development of homegrown energycancels a perfectly safe pipelinejacks up consumer utility billspro-poverty policy

Put it all togetherThe extremism that stifles the development of homegrown energy, or cancels a perfectly safe pipeline that would employ tens of thousands, or jacks up consumer utility bills for no improvement in either human health or world temperature, is a pro-poverty policy.--Mitch Daniels, Governor of Indiana

Write two sentences in which you use phrases from the passage above. Remember all four of the principles we have covered: (Attribution, Limitation, Integration, and Documentation).

RememberAttribution (Who said it? Whos that?)Limitation (What is important or special in the passage?)Integration (How can the important parts be inserted into your writing?)Documentation (Where can the reader find the source for the quotation?)

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