Teaching Writing Project

1. Teaching Writing Project Punctuating Quotations and Citations within your paper

2. Lesson Objective At the end of this lesson, students will: • Be able to properly punctuate a quotation without a parenthetical citation • Be able to properly place a parenthetical citation within a sentence. • Be able to properly punctuate a quotation with a parenthetical citation • Be able to punctuate quotations within quotations

3. Quotations without Parenthetical Citations • Using quotes around common words for emphasis • Using quotes around an article title • Using quotes around anything and then continuing the sentence after a comma

4. 1. Quotations without Parenthetical Citations • Rule: In this instance, punctuation comes inside the quotation marks • Bad Example: “… fighting to survive”. “… fighting to survive”! • Good Example: “…fighting to survive.” “… fighting to survive!”

5. 1. Quotations without Parenthetical Citations • Rule: In this instance, punctuation comes inside the quotation marks • Bad Example: Tan explored this idea in her essay “Mother Tongue”. • Good Example: Tan explored this idea in her essay “Mother Tongue.”

6. 1. Quotations without Parenthetical Citations • Rule: In this instance, punctuation comes inside the quotation marks • Bad Example: …described her mother’s English as “difficult to understand”, but the author disagrees with that vehemently. • Good Example: …described her mother’s English as “difficult to understand,” but the author disagrees with that vehemently.

7. 1. Quotations without Parenthetical Citations • Rule: In this instance, punctuation comes inside the quotation marks • EXCEPTION!!! If you are forming an interrogative sentence, but the words you are quoting are not interrogative! • Ex. How can adults call this preposterous situation “nonsense”?

8. 2. Quotations with Parenthetical Citations • Rule: Citations go outside the quotation marks, but inside the punctuation of the sentence. • Bad Example: “…needs to be corrected.” (Erikson 45). • Bad Example: “…needs to be corrected.” (Erikson 45) • Bad Example: “…needs to be corrected (Erikson 45).” • Bad Example: “…needs to be corrected,” (Erikson 45).

9. 2. Quotations with Parenthetical Citations • Rule: Citations go outside the quotation marks, but inside the punctuation of the sentence. • Good Example: “…needs to be corrected” (Erikson 45).

10. 2. Quotations with Parenthetical Citations • Rule: Citations go outside the quotation marks, but inside the punctuation of the sentence. • EXCEPTION!!! If the text being quoted has a question mark or exclamation point, keep it inside the quotation marks and place a period after the parenthetical citation • Ex. “…expected to help!” (Mirren 687). • EX. “…what can we do?” (Mirren 689).

11. 3. Placement of Parenthetical Citations • Rule: Parenthetical Citations go a the end of a sentence, regardless of the quotation’s placement in the sentence. • Bad Example: …described her mother’s English as “difficult to understand” (Tan 546), but the author disagrees with that vehemently. • Good Example: …described her mother’s English as “difficult to understand,” but the author disagrees with that vehemently (Tan 546).

12. 3. Placement of Parenthetical Citations • Rule: Parenthetical Citations go a the end of a sentence, regardless of the quotation’s placement in the sentence. • EXCEPTION!!! If you are quoting several bits within the same sentence, but they are from different pages. • Ex. …is described as "marvelous" (34), "fun" (98), and "dramatic" (39).

13. 4. Quotations within Quotations • RULE: When quoting a piece of writing that has quotations already in it, use double quotations around the entire passage, and single quotations around the quotes. • Ex: The text reads: … other Asian-American students whose English spoken in the home might also be described as “broken” or “limited.” • Ex: Your insertion should look like: “… other Asian-American students whose English spoken in the home might also be described as ‘broken’ or ‘limited.’”

14. Practice Activity

15. Q & A