Integrate Those Quotes, Y'all!
You all already should've read the Integrating Sources section in your
textbook (starting on pg. 61), so I'm going to build on that rather than
repeat what you've already read. Integrating your secondary source
material into your PSA as you create your SSI is a really important part
of the process.
Ex. Because NFL athletes are often young and don't receive any formal financial training, "nearly half of all pro-football players will file for bankruptcy at least once in their lives" (McGregor 92).
Ex. "Nearly half of all pro-football players will file for bankruptcy at least once in their lives," suggesting that NFL players are not provided with the right financial tools to manage the large sums of money they temporarily bring in (McGregor 92).
The popcorn method involves sprinkling short snippets of quoted material within your own sentence.
Ex. The NFL has a known issue with players "fil[ing] for bankruptcy" and has down little to address the issue with affects "nearly half of all pro-football players" (McGregor 92).
You can see how with each of these methods, the writer is using the quoted material to boost what they're saying rather than letting the source material take over the sentence. We don't want the reader to have to interpret the quoted material on their own or what for a new sentence to accomplish that work. Your paper will flow smoother and your quoted materials will seamlessly support your own ideas rather than dominating your voice right off the page.
For your response:
EITHER, how have you integrated quoted material in the past? Are you a heavy paraphraser? A quote dropper? A long quote fan? (which we want to avoid for the ARP, but is definitely okay in other classes if that's what the assignment calls for).
OR, what makes you nervous or concerns you about implementing quote integration? Is this something you've done before? Have you done it differently for other classes? Is quote integration something you're really excellent at?
OR, follow up to at least TWO students responses.
Pitfalls to avoid:
- Quote dropping: including a full sentence or more of quoted material into your paper without any of your own words.
- Using Attributes instead of Integration: Phrased like "According to Dr. Abdul" and "In her article, "The Sound and the Furry," Catalina Gorbenson says, 'BLAH BLAH BLAH.'" When you use attribution tags to identify where your quote came from (the article title) or who wrote it (the author), you aren't actually engaging with the content of the quote. While it's helpful to include acknowledge sources both in your text as well as in your citations, that's not full quote integration because you aren't showing the reader that you understand the content of the quote and how it relates to your topic.
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How to Integrate Those Quotes!
Method 1: Introduction
When you integrate you quoted material using the introduction method, you begin your sentence with your own words and then transition to the quoted material.Ex. Because NFL athletes are often young and don't receive any formal financial training, "nearly half of all pro-football players will file for bankruptcy at least once in their lives" (McGregor 92).
Method 2: Interpretation
Integrating your quotes using the interpretation method means you'll begin your sentence with the quote material and then shift to your own words.
Ex. "Nearly half of all pro-football players will file for bankruptcy at least once in their lives," suggesting that NFL players are not provided with the right financial tools to manage the large sums of money they temporarily bring in (McGregor 92).
Method 3: Popcorn Quotes
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Ex. The NFL has a known issue with players "fil[ing] for bankruptcy" and has down little to address the issue with affects "nearly half of all pro-football players" (McGregor 92).
You can see how with each of these methods, the writer is using the quoted material to boost what they're saying rather than letting the source material take over the sentence. We don't want the reader to have to interpret the quoted material on their own or what for a new sentence to accomplish that work. Your paper will flow smoother and your quoted materials will seamlessly support your own ideas rather than dominating your voice right off the page.
For your response:
EITHER, how have you integrated quoted material in the past? Are you a heavy paraphraser? A quote dropper? A long quote fan? (which we want to avoid for the ARP, but is definitely okay in other classes if that's what the assignment calls for).
OR, what makes you nervous or concerns you about implementing quote integration? Is this something you've done before? Have you done it differently for other classes? Is quote integration something you're really excellent at?
OR, follow up to at least TWO students responses.
I integrated quoted materials in my essays when I was in high school. And I always directly import the quoted materials into my paper, which is not the right way after I read this blog. I am not a skilful paraphraser, because of my limited amount of professional vocabularies. I am a long quote fan as well... However, I'd like to use the above three methods of quoting to improve my article.
ReplyDeleteI used to do interpretation and introduction while I quote. I find this way my readers can get what the sentence is saying, or at least how I am going to interpret this sentence and use that to support the point I am trying to make.
ReplyDeleteI have integrated quoted material before taking 1110. I usually find what is useful in the article and put it in my essay with quotation, and then I will explain how it support my points. I am not good at summerizing, so I usually just drop the quotation there. I realize I should integrate my quotations with my own words after reading these three methods. Sometimes I also worry about whether I really understand the article and explain it in a clear way.
ReplyDeleteI have had to integrate quotes in all my writing and history classes throughout high school. I have used all kinds of methods to use quotes in papers including an even mix of the methods mentioned here. I find the easiest way to be paraphrasing the quotes as it allows the easiest integration of analysis or opinion. There isn't really anything that makes me nervous about integrating quotes. I believe I am fairly decent at integrating quotes.
ReplyDeleteI used to integrate quoted material by using Attributes instead of Integration in the past. Before taking 1110, I usually found the useful information to quote them by using "According to", "The writer said...". Sometimes I worry about whether the way of quotation is right. However, I will take these methods to improve my quotations.
ReplyDeleteIt is good way to make essay more persuasive by using related idea from other famous writer. However, I am not a heavy paraphraser so that I have to copy original sentences. Quoting integration always cannot be omitted. I used to use these word to integrate quotes material —— "according to”, "refer to”, or “someone said”. These above methods might improve my old way to quote materials.
ReplyDeleteQuote integration has been difficult for me in the past. I tend to include long quotes, and don't integrate them or introduce them. I usually drop in a quote, and then explain what it means. I think if I focus of introducing my quotes, and paraphrasing information I receive, I will improve in integrating my quotes.
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I have used quotes in past papers, but I don't think they flowed very well with the rest of the writing. I would use a lot of "according to" and "this person said" and then drop the quote and explain how it relates to my topic. More recently, I've started to use a lot of paraphrasing. I still need to work on using quotes to support my ideas, rather than basing my ideas on the quotes.
ReplyDeleteI did not do many quotations in the past. I think I tend to be a paraphraser that I prefer to conclude ideas in my own words. For the quotation part, I looked for the relevant resources and references and direcly quoted one or two sentences to my essay. I usually integrate my own interpretation with the quotations together. For English 1110, we have strict rules of quotating sources in APA style and format, I'm afraid that I may do anything wrong about the APA format. The blog content provides good suggestion for me.
ReplyDeleteI don't think I've done a very good job of integrating quotes in the past. I think I generally paraphrase, or use long block quotes if it's a research paper. Any direct quotes shorter than a block quote I have probably just said "According to David Harrison, blah blah blah..." So I will have to make an effort to integrate my quote better in the next PSA assignment.
ReplyDeleteI integrated quoted material for my essays of literature, history, science classes in the past. I used to be a quote dropper, and my teacher told me that is a wrong way to quote, then I changed. Now I think I am more like a paraphraser. I will try to meet the requirements of quotation in my following PSA assignment.
ReplyDeleteI think I all of my past English teachers did a good job making sure that I use quotes properly. I am confident in my abilities to properly use and integrate quotes into my work. The hard part for me is usually finding the right quote. Out of the three methods listed, I most often use the introduction method. I try to avoid long quotes because I think that they take up too much space and leave less room for my own analysis. I do not think I have ever used the interpretation method before, but I am interested in giving it a shot for the ARP. Lastly, I think I have used the popcorn method a few times without it being intentional, it just happened to work out that way. With that being said, I think the popcorn method is the most difficult to work with because the quote needs to lend itself to being broken up. I also want to work on paraphrasing. In the past I have stayed away from paraphrasing because I like the words of the author so much that I struggle to put it in my own words and still have the information be effective.
ReplyDeleteI think I all of my past English teachers did a good job making sure that I use quotes properly. I am confident in my abilities to properly use and integrate quotes into my work. The hard part for me is usually finding the right quote. Out of the three methods listed, I most often use the introduction method. I try to avoid long quotes because I think that they take up too much space and leave less room for my own analysis. I do not think I have ever used the interpretation method before, but I am interested in giving it a shot for the ARP. Lastly, I think I have used the popcorn method a few times without it being intentional, it just happened to work out that way. With that being said, I think the popcorn method is the most difficult to work with because the quote needs to lend itself to being broken up. I also want to work on paraphrasing. In the past I have stayed away from paraphrasing because I like the words of the author so much that I struggle to put it in my own words and still have the information be effective.
ReplyDeleteI have integrated quoted material into many papers in the past. When I do so I try to give the quote enough grammatical context so it doesn't seem awkward to reader when the first come across it. Often after I introduce a quote I will try to explain how the quote relates to my thesis of my paper. I try to not use long quotes because I think that it can distract away from my voice in the paper by over using the voice of another writer.
ReplyDeleteAs for me, I don't think I did well on quote because I'm not patient enough to read them. I prefer the long sentences and quote them directly. It's much easier and faster. I need to be more patient and read more details from the quote I want to use later.
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ReplyDeleteI used to integrate quoted material for my essays of literature, history and English classes in high school class. I always use "According to", "Someone said that.." to integrate quoted material. I think that I still need to learn more about how to integrate quoted material. I will work better on phrasing in my next PSA assignment.
I used to have to use other sources in my work in my high school English class. Whenever I finished a paper, I had to upload it to turnitin.com for an originality check. My papers always had a 0% match because I paraphrased everything or rewrote information in my own words (but I did make sure to cite the sources). Apparently my teacher wanted quotes and wanted the turnitin.com match to be around 3%, so I often had to go back and replace my words with direct quotes.
ReplyDeleteI have quoted some material in my environment science class but I did a bad job. At that time, I was a quote dropper. Now, I know how do quote in a better way. But what I feel nervous is that if I can use my own words to explain what author said in the essay. In addition, if I can find useful sources to seamlessly support my idea.
ReplyDeleteIn high school English classes, I would usually use a lot of long quotes in order to meet the quote requirement. As I've taken more English classes, I realize that I should get away from being a "quote dropper." I've gotten better at paraphrasing and using quotes in a more efficient way, but I will still need to work on that for the ARP.
ReplyDeleteI have never been taught these methods when quoting things in my papers. I have always quoted them by using attributes. Something that scares me about this new way of quoting things is that I will mistakenly use the quotes in the wrong way, or that my words will not be personal enough and they could be considered plagiarized. I have never had any practice with introducing quotes this way, so I am nervous about using them for my papers in this class, but I think that I will be able to do it well and I am very interested in this new way.
ReplyDeleteIn many classes I have had to quote various sources. The problem I have had with quoting things is that many teachers have required different ways to quote. One thing that stood out was the way to integrate quotes into the paper. Some teachers would require a very direct statement such as "said" where others wanted a more smooth transition. Coming here, I haven't had to quote sources much but instead paraphrase scientific articles. I feel as if I am better at paraphrasing as I can more easily integrate paraphrased material into my writing.
ReplyDeleteI did the quotation in my report at the EDUTL 1902. When I read this report, I think I was in the quote dropper. At past, I just used the secondary source that have a similar opinion with me and just dropped this article to my report. From now on, I will do the quotation either interpretation or pop-corn method because these methods show my understanding through both my report and Secondary source.
ReplyDeleteHonestly I have always been pretty confident about integrating quotes into my essays and feel I am fairly good at it. But it has been a while, and if I have a strong thesis and good sources I think it can go well. I think I am not nervous for integrating quotes but rather fearful about finding quotes and organizing my paper and thesis so that everything makes sense.
ReplyDeleteIn high school I was taught to try not to rely on quotes. In addition to that, I was taught that after using a quote, I should explain its meaning and then tying it into my thesis. So as a result I tend to find a smallish quote then build upon it.
ReplyDeleteI have integrated quoted materials when I was having the Environmental Science class. I think it's a little bit different from the one I will do in 1110 class, because the previous class needs more detailed data and such things to make it reliable and persuasive, so it always took long quotation. But I am confident that I can integrate quoted materials well since I like the way "Popcorn Quotes" work.
ReplyDeleteIn most of my writings, I tend to either use the introduction method or drop the quote which, now I know is a bad habit, I will try to use the interpretation and popcorn method more from now on. In my high school, I was taught to drop the quotes, and there were no particular guidelines regarding the quotes. I am not a long quote fan, a quote should be one or one and a half line long, I have also used paraphrasing in my high school, It is fine in some instances with a citation, but I try to avoid paraphrasing.
ReplyDeleteI have a lot of experience with integrating quotes and other information from secondary sources in my writing. In high school, I was required to do so on almost every paper that I wrote. I am a big fan of paraphrasing the information that was in the secondary source because it allows you to seamlessly integrate the information into your writing. I also like to use short direct quotes rather than long ones so my writing still flows well with the embedded information.
ReplyDeleteBrandon Harroff
I have integrated quoted material from my ESL 1902 and 1901 essay. And I am kind of a quote dropper, I prefer to illustrate something using my own words rather than using paraphrasing the quote. And as for me I think quoting is a really important factor composing the great essay, I just do not know how to use it appropriately in my essay. After I learn the quoting, my essay may be more detailed.
ReplyDeleteI'm not really nervous about the quotation part of this assignment because I've had to integrate quotes into many of the papers I've wrote in the past. I recently wrote a paper based on a book I read and had to use quotes from there so I think I'm more nervous about using enough information from each of my sources. I have definitely used all of the types of quotation integration examples listed above. I think I tend to use the third technique the most and the interpretation technique the least.
ReplyDeleteHonestly, I haven't done any kinds of quote integration before. When I was in another GE course, I simply put that long quote I want to cite inside the sentence and then tried to explain the relationship of this quote with my context. So I would say that I'm definitely not good at quoting, but I hope I could learn a lot through this class.
ReplyDeleteI am nervous about providing enough integration of quotes to support the main point of my argument. I've had some experiences in the past with in when writing and typing my academic essays. In terms of using this technique, I have had some solid experiences in it during my AP classes in high school.
ReplyDeleteI have integrated quotes in the class of history and literature when I studied in high school. I think I am a fan of long quote because it can allow me write less. I am not skillful and confident about quotes and I believe I can learn more in the rest of this class.
ReplyDeleteI actually feel like I didn't have as much freedom to integrate quotes into my high school essays. It always had to be so structured, and we would write out essay outlines and have to follow that design very closely. Consequently, I ended up with long quotes, and then proceeded it with comments. I'm looking forward to the opportunity to try this different method, as it seems more effective to me, and it will be a useful ability to have.
ReplyDeleteI have integrated quoted material after I studied in America. I used to quote long sentences directly into my essay. Because I don't have enough vocabulary to express the meaning of the original sentence. Now I found it is not correct to do that. And I will use the above three methods of quoting to improve my article.
ReplyDeleteQuoting makes me nervous because if a very small mistake is made, or if it isn't cited properly it could be considered plagiarism. I usually will quote an entire sentence and use an in text citation. I will use what I learned from this blog post to integrate my quotes better.
ReplyDeleteIntegrating quotes is a common task for writing academic paper. In the previous course l get used to use quotes in the essay but i don't like to add too much quotes and long sentences in the paragraph cause it will make the paragraph full of quotes. Usually i only use quotes when it's hard to paraphrase the words by the original author such like the idea is hard to understand in my own word.
ReplyDeleteIn material in the past, I've usually avoided quoting or used tiny snippets of quotes just because I didn't understand how to do it without seeming "lazy". I usually paraphrased everything I read but if I felt more confident, I would use more quote snippets instead of paraphrasing. I don't like having a paragraph full of quotes or even paraphrases, I definitely prefer using more of my interpretation of what I read because it's just easier for me to write my own thoughts instead of rewording other people's thoughts.
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In the past, I used quotes to corroborate the ideas I try to present. Usually it is with heavy paraphrasing to substantiate an idea with writings of another individual who has a similar thought process. You can tailor the general idea of what they are conveying to best fit your claims. I am not a fan of long quotes as much because they distract from the content and why they are there in the first place. Instead short quotes to paint the picture of what I am trying to say and paraphrasing to further carve the essence of my discussion seems to be the most effective for me.
ReplyDeleteI quote materials and followed the APA format in the past. I am not a heavy paraphraser, but I did paraphrase some sentences when the original words are too long to quote or when sometimes I use too many quotes. In general, I prefer straightly quote what the author said but not reorganize his/her words so that I won't provide misunderstanding information.
ReplyDeleteI integrated the materials cited in the high school English class into the paper. But most of them are direct references and are not explained. These references take up a lot of space and I can't do an effective analysis. Therefore, I will try to use the popcorn and interpretation method in my new papers. These methods will help me to work for ARP.
ReplyDeleteI have never done this type of quote integration before. In other papers, I usually start out with my own sentence introducing the quote, add the quote, then use my own sentence to tie the quote to my point. I am excited to try new ways to integrate secondary sources using integration or introduction. I would not say that I am excellent at using the correct method to quote sources or create a bibliography, but I do think that I am good at finding good sources.
ReplyDeleteIn my high school English classes, I had to integrate many different quotes into my papers. Usually, I would paraphrase or quote drop, both were used equally throughout my essays. After integrating these materials into my text, I would explain and tie the quote together with why it is important to my essay.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was taking the course EDUTL 1901 and EDUTL 1902, I integrated some quoted materials and paraphrased them. I integrated them to make them serve for my papers' theme. I remember the professor taught me that we should not just quote and paraphrase. Instead, we should explain the connection between each materials and the connections between materials and our papers' theme and topics.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was studying in EDUTL 1902, though I wanted to integrate quoted material into my writing in a smooth way, I have no clear concepts of how to do that. As a result, most of time I just put a whole quoted sentence between my own writing. Truly, it is not going to be a good way. Sometimes they are too long, or they include parts not so relevant for my purposes. After reading this blog, I am excited and nervous at the same time. The basic concepts of integration of quoted sources are pretty simple and direct. However, I need to carefully select parts which are not only suit for my sentence structure but also relevant and supportive for my claim. I am looking forward exercises in following writing tasks to get used to it.
ReplyDeleteI used to be a quote dropper, put the full sentence in my article without paraphrase it. Because of that, I become a long quote fan. I used direct quote a lot in my high school because our English writing is pretty simple and teachers don't mind how you quote things. Now I am try my best to paraphrase it instead of direct quote, that will be better when I am writing science paper. Also, after reading the bog, I learned these three methods to quote materials and they are very useful.
ReplyDeleteI never like to use quote and citation. Because it always make me paper trap in trouble. Especially for me in my Chinese high school, they will just taught me how to paraphrase but never taught me how to cite. But ,now I am already a college student and start to look for new method of writing. So,I try my best to learn the citation skills and exploit it.
ReplyDeleteI have integrated quote material for past classes and I would have to say this is a weakness for me. I do not believe I am good at paraphrasing and I always want to use the whole quote to give the most information I can give possible. This is a part of my writing where I need to work on in order for my papers to read smoother.
ReplyDeleteI learned how to quote in my essay writing in my 1901 &1902 course and I found quoting is really useful. A good resource can give me a great support on my view point. I used to put a long sentence from other article into my essay directly but that is a totally wrong way. Learning how to integrating the source is definitely a necessary step in the way of writing essay.
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