USING QUOTATIONS


Lead-in Phrase

Incorporate the quotation by using a lead in phrase. This lead-in phrase allows you to introduce the speaker and set up his or her ideas. The citation lives at the end (author's last name + page #)

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Dr. Leete argues that in these terrible social conditions, the generosity and kindness that religion teaches was impossible to apply since doing so would "reduce to poverty those who should practice them, laying down laws of conduct which the law of self-preservation compelled men to break." (Bellamy 181)

Block Quotations
If the quote is over 3 lines long, use block quotes. Omit the quotation marks and indent the whole quote on the left hand side like this...
  Dr. Leete insists that education was not only for the rich since the purpose of education was to enrich the individual's appreciation of and contributions to culture.
  If indeed we could not afford to educate everybody, we should choose the coarsest and dullest by nature, rather than the brightest, to receive the education that we could give. The naturally refined and intellectual can better dispense with the aids to culture than those less fortunate in natural endowments. (Bellamy 144)

By describing an ideal education in this way, Bellamy demonstrates his belief that education not only makes a person more economically productive, but socially better and even more able to experience a complete, satisfying life.