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To Kill A Mockingbird Quotes Integration

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Quote Integration Using quotes from the text is an important way to support your ideas. In most papers, I would expect at least 3-4 really strong quotations used to prove your topic. The important word in the last sentence is “prove.” You do NOT use quotations to establish facts from the story. You use quotations to PROVE something. For example – I don’t need a quotation from the book to tell me that Tom Robinson is found guilty. I have read To Kill a Mockingbird and I know that he is found guilty. Be sure you are using quotations not to pad your paper, but to strengthen it. There are a few different ways to integrate quotations from the text into your writing. Without them, it simply looks like you are just talking off …show more content…

Colons are used when the sentence is already complete (you could end it with a period); a colon indicates that what comes after the colon is directly connected to what preceded it. Here is an example: Scout is constantly complaining about being left behind by Jem and Dill. She expresses her feelings to Jem as he and Dill are sneaking out to see Boo Radley: “You never let me go anywhere. If you don’t let me go this time I’m gonna tell Atticus on the both of you.” She says this to Jem intending to get him to bring her along. Notice in the previous example that the sentence with the colon is actually a complete sentence (the colon could be replaced by a period), but putting the colon there indicates that the quote connects to what was said before the colon (in this case, Scout expressing herself). MORE ON THE BACK -If you have a quote from a text that is going to take up more than four lines, or if you are quoting multiple lines of dialogue from a text, set the text off by indenting it and NOT using quotation marks (it should remain double-spaced). Scout is constantly complaining about being left behind by Jem and Dill. She expresses her feelings as Jem and Dill are sneaking out to see Boo Radley: Jem had never snuck out for anything before and I was worried. I was also very upset that he wouldn’t take me along with him. It is one thing to be left behind during all of the other adventures, but this was a

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