Quotations and In-Text Documentations

C.S. Lewis' The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is about four siblings who stumble upon a hidden world through a wardrobe full of coats.

• Paraphrasing

• Summarizing

• Quoting

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Tom Monteleone says, "You should be able to write clear, simple sentences that say what you mean" (4) to claim basic writing understanding.

• Speech Tag

• Grammatical Sentence Part

• Introductory Sentence

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"At this moment the violins sounded the announcement of the ballet. The king advanced with the president's lady, with whom he was to dance; and hos royal highness with the queen" (Dumas 192).

• Incorrect In-Text Documentation

• Correct In-Text Documentation

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

From what material do we create the scenes that will one day walk and talk their way across the screen? What is the clay we twist and shape, keep or throw away? What is the "substance" of story? (Robert McKee, 135)

• Incorrect In-Text Documentation

• Correct In-Text Documentation

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Source integration that highlights the details

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

In the introduction of his second chapter in The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing a Novel, Monteleone declares that, to even begin writing, you need to have talent. He also emphasizes that creativity is a necessity. If neither of those requirements are present, it would be difficult to undergo the challenge of writing a novel (16).

• Summarizing

• Quoting

• Paraphrasing

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

To catch a reader's attention, you must begin your piece with a hook, or intriguing opening statement such as: "Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy" (Lewis 1).

• Quoting

• Paraphrasing

• Summarizing

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Writers are notorious for not agreeing on anything, but many can agree that "other characters may be dogged, even inflexible, but the protagonist in particular is a willful being" (McKee 137).

• Speech Tag

• Grammatical Sentence Part

• Introductory Sentence

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

In Part III of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, the narrator sailed for many days;

The next Day I sailed to another island, and thence to a third and fourth,

sometimes using my Sail, and sometimes my Paddles. Distresses, let it suffice

that on the 5th Day, I arrived at the last Island in my sight, which lay

South-South-East to the former. (131)

• Short Quotation

• Block Quotation

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

How many lines are in a Block Quotation?

• 3 or less

• Only .5

• 1

• 4 or greater

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9