Body Paragraphs and In-Text Citations
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8th - 12th Grade
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Aleyna Rentz
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Body Paragraphs and In-Text Citations
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The Main Idea Sentence
Your body paragraph will begin with a sentence that introduces the topic of your paragraph
This topic should be mentioned in your thesis statement
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Fill in the Blanks
Type answer...
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Anatomy of a body paragraph
Main idea sentence: tells us what your paragraph will be about
Textual evidence: quote that supports your main idea / thesis
Analysis: an explanation of the quote you just introduced
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QUOTE - ANALYSIS - TRANSITION
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EXAMPLE:
The salient literary device in "Out, Out" is personification, which Frost uses to make the buzzsaw seem more human than the boy operating it. At the beginning of the poem, the reader sees the saw "snarl[ing] and rattl[ing] in the yard" (Frost 1). These verbs give the saw a personality, specifically a menacing one. This idea is reinforced through repetition, specifically in line 7, where the saw "snarl[s] and rattle[s], snarl[s] and rattle[s]." While this repetition reminds the reader that the saw is merely mechanical, a machine capable of nothing but repetitious actions, these repeated words also hammer home the saw's sinister nature.
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In-text citations and quote formatting
In this class, we are following MLA formatting
Perdue University's Online Writing Lab is a great resource (look on Final Site for a link)
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The poem describes hope as a bird who "sings the tune without the words - / And never stops - at all" (Dickinson 3-4).
use a backslash to indicate line breaks
Quotation marks go BEFORE parenthetical citations
Period goes AFTER parenthetical citations
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Dickinson describes hope as a bird who "sings the tune without the words - / And never stops - at all" (3-4).
Why doesn't this citation include Dickinson's last name?
Because it's already mentioned in the sentence.
If the sentence began, "in line 3-4, Dickinson describes hope..." it wouldn't need an in-text citation at all. Why not?
Because we've already mentioned the line numbers.
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Why do some in-text citations have line numbers only?
The poem describes hope as a bird who "sings the tune without the words - / And never stops - at all" (Dickinson 3-4). This metaphorical bird "perches in the soul," where it provides support in tough times (2). Dickinson's metaphor is fairly straightforward -- she simply means that hope lives inside one's soul, and that its song is an inexhaustible resource. Even during tough times, or "in extremity," hope requires no maintenance; it simply is (11).
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Multiple Choice
Heaney's poem contains several instances of alliteration, such as "When the spade sinks into gravelly ground."
This line is missing an in-text citation. What should it look like?
(Heaney 4)
(4)
(Seamus Heaney 4)
none needed
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Multiple Choice
In line 2 of "Digging," Heaney describes the pen in his hand as "snug as a gun."
How should the in-text citation be formatted?
("Digging" 2)
(2)
(Heaney 2)
none needed
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Multiple Choice
Correct the underlined part of the sentence: Dickinson says "The Carriage held but just Ourselves -- / And Immortality." (3-4)
Immortality."
Immortality" (3-4).
Immortality". (3-4)
Correct as is
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Make sure quotes are smoothly integrated into your writing
Incorrect: "Yet - never - in Extremity, / It asked a crumb - of me" (Dickinson 11-12). Here, Dickinson is saying hope requires no effort -- one only has to listen for its song.
Correct: In Dickinson's eyes, hope "never...ask[s] a crumb" of those who need it (11-12).
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Brackets
Brackets enable you to make quotes fit more smoothly into your writing
Without brackets, sometimes the grammar in your quote will be incompatible with the grammar in your sentence
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An example...
Incorrect: At the beginning of the poem, the reader sees the saw "snarled and rattled in the yard" (Frost 1).
Correct: At the beginning of the poem, the reader sees the saw "snarl[ing] and rattl[ing] in the yard" (Frost 1).
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Multiple Choice
Correct the underlined part of the sentence: Death in the poem is so kind that the speaker "put[s] away / My labor and my leisure too, / For His Civility" (Dickinson 7-8).
her labor and her leisure too
my [her] labor and my [her] leisure too
[Her] labor and [her] leisure too
correct as is
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Multiple Choice
Correct the underlined part of the sentence: The poem begins, "Because I could not stop for Death -- He kindly stopped for me" (Dickinson 1-2).
Death -- / He kindly
Death --
He kindly
Death -- [line break] He kindly
Correct as is
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Multiple Choice
"We passed the School, where Children strove" (Dickinson 9). This line suggests the speaker is looking back on childhood.
How should these lines be revised?
The in-text citation should go before the quotation marks
The sentences should be combined somehow so the quote doesn't stand alone
the period after the in-text citation should be replaced with a comma
Fine as is
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Open Ended
Combine the sentence and the quote: "We passed the School, where Children strove" (Dickinson 9). This line suggests the speaker is looking back on childhood.
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