Writing Across the Curriculum

Integrating Quotations

• Wilfred Owens says that the only prayer said for those who die in battle is the "rapid rattle of guns which spatter out their hasty orisons" (line 7).
• Margaret Mead feels that "the use of marriage contracts may reduce the divorce rate" (9).
• Knight views the symbolism in Jones' play as a "creation and destruction pattern" (164).
• Edith Hamilton describes Hera perfectly: "She was the protector of marriage, and married women were her particular care" (223).
• Again the main character hears the words spoken by his grandfather: "I never told you, but our life is a war" (154).
• According to Clyde Jones, "Frost revives the themes of the early nineteenth-century romantics" (112).
• As the grandfather explained, "...life is a war" (154).
• "A fully articulated pastoral idea of America," claims Leo Marx, "did not emerge until the end of the eighteenth century" (89).
• Frank Kermode, a prominent critic, claims that Hamlet "is a delaying revenger" (1138).

• Hamlet tells Ophelia, "you jig and amble . . . and make your wantonness your ignorance" (III.i.140-142).
• Hawthorn writes that "Robin gazed with dismay and astonishment.... The effect was as if of two individual devils, a fiend of fire and a fiend of darkness, had united themselves to form this infernal visage" (887).
• According to Anne Barton, the last part of A Midsummer Night's Dream shows "the relationship between art and life . . ." (219).
• Singer writes that, "His thoughts turned to matters of business.... It was easier to think about practical matters" (279).

• "Lovers often claim that they feel as if they are being swept away," and research suggests that they are indeed "literally flooded by chemicals" (Toufexis 166).
• Love and nature seem to act in tandem, for as Walsh suggests, "nature has wired us for one special person" (quoted in Toufexis 167). [sic]
• "There were no pieces of strong [sic] around the boxes," one witness wrote.

• In A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf speaks about women in literature and history:

  A very queer, composite being thus emerges. Imaginatively she is of the highest importance; practically she is completely insignificant. She pervades poetry from cover to cover; she is all but absent from history. She dominates the loves of kings and conquerors in fiction; in fact, she was the slave of any boy whose parents forced a ring upon her finger. (60)

• "'Have I then sold myself,' thought the minister, 'to the fiend whom . . . this velveted old hag has chosen for her prince and master!'" (237).

16. The senator announced, "I will not seek re-election"; then he left the room.
17. Though Thoreau wrote that most men "lead lives of quiet desperation" (98), much of his book about Walden Pond "expresses joy" (96).
18. When King Hamlet's ghost reveals that he was killed by Claudius, young Hamlet exclaims, "O my prophetic soul!" (I.v.40). What are the implications of Hamlet's statement, "To be, or not to be" (III.i.55)?
19. In the closing lines, the speaker suggests that "it just sags like a heavy load" (lines 9-10).

20. "She looked carefully for the place where [Elizabeth] had entered the garden" (65).
    Flaubert says that "she [has] an excess of energy" (97).
21. Incorrect: While the legislators cringe at the sudden darkness, "all eyes were turned to Abraham Davenport."
    Correct: While the legislators cringe at the sudden darkness, "all eyes [turn] to Abraham Davenport."
22. Incorrect: Wilfred Owen says that the only prayer said for those who die in battle is war's noise, which "patter out their hasty orisons" (line 7).
    Correct: Wilfred Owen says that the only prayer said for those who die in battle is war's noise, which "patter[s] out their hasty orisons" (1ine 7).
23. Incorrect: We learn that there is some restiveness outside the village over lotteries: "over in the north village."
    Correct: We learn that there is some restiveness outside the village over lotteries: "over in the north village they're talking of giving up the lottery; some places have already quit lotteries" (208).
24. Incorrect: She does not, it should be noted, question the fairness of lotteries, just of the particular draw: "You didn't give him time enough to take any paper he wanted. I saw you. It wasn't fair" (209).
    Correct: She does not, it should be noted, question the fairness of lotteries, just of the particular draw: "You didn't give him [her husband] time enough to take any paper he wanted. I saw you. It wasn't fair" (209).
25. Incorrect: The father, Abner, has taught Sartoris "... to stick to your own blood or you will not have any blood to stick to you" (107).
    Correct: The father, Abner, has taught Sartoris ". . . to stick to [his] own blood or [he] will not have any blood to stick to [him]" (107).
26. Stenfeld claimed "the gun had blood on it before he picked it up" (empahsis mine, 8).

Poor style in quoting:

• This quote sums it up completely: "...
• The quotation above tells us that ...
• " ..." This sentence means ...
• Here is what she says: "..."

Reporting / citing verbs