LOOKING BACK BEFORE MOVING FORWARD INTEGRATING QUOTATIONS Back

LOOKING BACK BEFORE MOVING FORWARD INTEGRATING QUOTATIONS Back to Elementary School

NO. . . NOT THE DAYS YOU SPENT STUFFED IN YOUR LOCKER WETTING YOUR PANTS

Can you remember assignments like this? READING AND. . .

ANSWERING QUESTIONS

First, you would read the Question THE BUILDING OF CANADA Read the textbook and answer the following questions. 1. WHO WAS J. A. MACDONALD? 2. WHAT WAS JOHN A. MACDONALD’S GREATEST ACCOMPLISHMENT? 3. BLAH?

And the teacher would say. . DON’T FORGET TO USE COMPLETE SENTENCES!

What was John A. Mac. Donald’s greatest accomplishment ? John A. Mac. Donald’s greatest accomplishment was. . .

THEN YOU WOULD READ & LOOK FOR THE INFORMATION IN THE TEXTBOOK Blah, blah. . . Although John A Macdonald achieved many great things as Prime Minister, most historians consider the building of the CPR his greatest accomplishment. Blah blah. . .

And you would finish the sentence John A Mac. Donald’s greatest accomplishment was. . . John A Mac. Donald’s greatest accomplishment was the building of the CPR. AND YOU WOULD GET AN A+

If you do this in high school, it is called PLAGIARIZING and you go directly to jail.

However, add a few “quotation marks” and you become a sophisticated academic writer.

John A Mac. Donald’s greatest accomplishment was “the building of the CPR. ”

SO JUST REMEMBER - - 1. YOU COULD DO THIS IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. 2. THE WRITER OF THE RESPONSE ALWAYS BEGINS THE STATEMENT. YOU CONTROL THE BEGINNING OF THE SENTENCE. 3. THEN ADD THE INFORMATION FROM THE TEXT YOU NEED TO COMPLETE THE IDEA. 4. There is no need to introduce that you are about to use a quotation or state a line. And 5. Never begin with a quotation – you will lose control over the composition.