Wednesday & Tuesday; November 25 & December2

We went over the following worksheet in preparation of writing an on demand essay over "The Crucible."


Certain essayists, writers of literary analyses, use evidence to support their ideas and interpretations. In other words, writers don’t just tell readers about their ideas-- they show them with details from the literary work itself. These details, called literary evidence, take the form of paraphrases, summaries, or quotations. Direct quotations are cited with page numbers within the text. The literary evidence-- plus the writer’s elaboration explaining the significance of the evidence-- supports the writer’s interpretations and insights.
If you were asked to write a paragraph of analysis, you could start with an idea or a quote. Let’s see how you would do this with a quote.
Dansforth says, “While I speak God’s law, I will not crack its voice with whimpering. If retaliation is your fear, know this- I should hang ten thousand that dared to rise against the law, and an ocean of salt tears could not melt the resolution of the statutes.”
What does this tell us about Dansforth? __________________________________________
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Circle the part of the quote that makes that point. Can you circle less words?
___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ _Now work the above information into paragraph format.
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In The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, Danforth feels ___________________________
__________________________. He says, “ ____________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________” ( ).
(Now explain the evidence and explore what this means in predicting his actions.) __________________________________________________________________________¬¬¬¬____________
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This explains why __________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________

Handling Quotations In Your Text
Author's Name
MLA format follows the author-page method of citation. This means that the author's last name and the page number(s) from which the quotation is taken must appear in the text, and a complete reference should appear in your works-cited list (see Your Works Cited Page, below). The author's name may appear either in the sentence itself or in parentheses following the quotation, but the page number(s) should always appear in the parentheses, not in the text of your sentence. If all of your quotes come from the same source, delete the author’s name.
Examples:
Freud states that "a dream is the fulfillment of a wish" (154).

Some argue that "a dream is the fulfillment of a wish" (Freud 154).

Emet has argued this point extensively (127-36).

Danforth said, “I speak God’s law” (129).
Here are a few “rules of thumb” when citing sources:
For every line of quote, there needs to be at least two sentences of explanation or exploration.
Don’t quote long passages that have several ideas in them. Boil it down to the sentence or phrase that makes your point.
If your final paper has more than 12% quoted material, we haven’t heard enough of your thoughts.

A rule of thumb is a principle with broad application that is not intended to be strictly accurate or reliable for every situation.