EF5/6 Quotations

school writing - academic writing

" " quotations marks
1. direct speech, exact words
Mom said, "Clean up your room after supper."
"Clean up your room after supper," Mom said.

indirect speech
The mother told the son to get her her citizenship.
direct speech
The mother said, "[G]et me citizenship. Hurry!"
Why [G]?
[ ] square bracket

2. titles of books, stories, movies, song
Know More English writing with a pen
I watched Titanic last night.
Know More English italics for computer

<<Know More English >> NOT ENGLISH
(Know More English) NOT ENGLISH

The Wise Woman of Cordoba XXX
The Wise Woman of Cordoba XXX
"The Wise Woman of Cordoba" part of a book, short story, chapter in a book

Voices in Literature by itself, its own thing
Voices in Literature
"The Raven" -part of a book, short story

detailed - finicky, very detailed, easy to get wrong

3. verbal irony - finger quotes
ironic - adj
ironically - adv

4. quoted material for sentences

" " quote material from the text

The narrator's mother was worried because she was "old, helpless, and without citizenship"(1).
Incorporating

Few words - 

The narrator's mother was worried because she was "old, helpless, and without citizenship"(1).
Grammatical, reads like a sentence
The narrator's mother was worried because she was "old, helpless, and without citizenship."(1)

"   " quoting
borrowing a few words from the story, putting them into our sentences

Make notes, find good words or phrases to quote 


"lose everything"
The mother was worried that she would "lose everything"(1) if she didn't get citizenship. 

Incorporate the quoted material.

She didn't know much about Canada because her husband had dissuaded her from learning about "Fan gwei ways"(4) like the other women did. Incorporated- borrowed, part of our sentence

She didn't know much about Canada because her husband had dissuaded her from learning about "[f]an gwei ways"(4) like the other women did.

[ ] to make minor changes

The son couldn't teach his mother to speak English because she was "too old to want to learn".(3)

The mother "resists anything"(3) that has to do with Western culture. 

The son was worried about causing a "cultural misunderstanding"(3) about the money.

Borrowing a few words to put into our own sentence. 1,2,3,4 words

Less is more!

The mother thought that giving money to the official was "definitely much easier"(3) than having to learn to speak and understand English.
INCORPORATED - grammatical