Using quotation marks ""
1. title of an article, song
Titles of books Medicine River
It's a book. It has its own covers. It's a separate text
Medicine River italics (Control i)
Medicine River Don't do both- choose one.
Impact Impact
"I Confess" part of a book, chapter, story, article
Writing the Communicate for computer
Writing the Communicate for handwriting
"Chapter 4: From Paragraph to Essay"
"Chapter 4: From Paragraph to Essay" XXX
"Chapter 4: From Paragraph to Essay" XXX
My Dinner with Andre movie
My Dinner with Andre movie
"Gucci Flipflops" part of an album
Gucci Flipflops
CD, album name (record)
Abbey Road Abbey Road
2. reported speech
Sarah said, "I am going to the beach tomorrow to work on my tan." exact words
Sarah said that she was going to the beach tomorrow to work on her tan. not exact words, idea of what she said,
Sarah said that she was going to the beach tomorrow to work on her tan. noun clause
Sarah said she was going to the beach tomorrow to work on her tan. AUTHENTIC ENGLISH
3. verbal irony, finger quotes, scare quotes
sarcasm- hurtful, insult
irony - humorous
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4. borrow from text, proof, evidence when writing answers
academic writing
Copying from the book. 0/6
plagiarism - copy from a text with no citation, hand it in for marks
Learn how to borrow words and phrases from a text and put them into our own writing.
2-3 words, 3-4 words, a few words
"Some farmers went ice skating down the gravel roads with clubs to harvest the pheasants that sat helplessly in the roadside ditches. (265)
Choose a few words or a phrase that you like.
Incorporate the words of the phrase into our own sentence.
"sat helplessly"
The young boys were looking at the ice-covered pheasants that "sat helplessly" (265) by the side of the road.
PROOF, EVIDENCE
The young boys were looking at the ice-covered pheasants that were by the side of the road: "sat helplessly" (265) XXX
The quotation has to be grammatical, and it has to be part of the sentence.
This is a skill that must be practiced and mastered.
The poor birds were "blindfolded with ice" (265), so they couldn't see the boys approach them.
INCORPORATING QUOTED MATERIAL
putting quoted material inside your sentence
The poor birds couldn't see the boys approach them: "blindfolded with ice" (265) XXX
Academic writing.
The poor birds were "blindfolded with ice" (265), so they couldn't see the boys approach them.
PARAPHRASE
The poor birds' eyes were covered with ice, so they couldn't see the boys approach them.
The poor birds were "blindfolded" (265) because of the freezing rain, so they couldn't see the boys approach them.
Everything in the farm "glistened like glass" (265) because it was covered with the frozen rain.
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