As He Puts It
The act of quoting one’s work provides us with a tremendous amount of originality to your piece of work. This will helps you ensures accuracy in your work. Quotations say to readers: “Look, I’m not just making this up. She says in her exact words. Many authors make a lot of mistakes when it comes to quoting. Many authors cite just a little, perhaps because they don’t want to go back to the original texts and check what the author said. Before quoting, you need to understand what you want to do with the quotes. Be careful not to select quotes to prove that you have read the author’s text.
This leaves one with only one task; you are only left with the task of finding appropriate quotations. As you present various quotations, you should make sure that they are relevant and are clear to your readers.
Since quotations don’t peak, you need to build a frame around them. Quotes without a frame are sometimes called “dangling” quotations. To adequately frame a reference, you need to insert it in what we call a “sandwich quotation.”
The one piece of advice about quoting is to get into the habit of following every original quotation by explaining what it means. It would help if you blended in your work to fit the authors work. After all, not all quotes need to be framed. It is easy and fast to know how to explain a quotation. Explanations are required for quotes that may be hard for readers to process: references that are long and complex, that is filled with details or jargon, or that contain hidden complexities.
It is better to risk being overly explicit about what you take a quotation to mean than to leave the quotation dangling and your readers in doubt. We want to survey some. Once you have mastered models like “as X puts it,” or “in X’s own words,” you probably won’t even have to think about them—and will be free to focus on the challenging ideas that templates help you frame.
Works cited
Richard A. Muller: From Physics for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines by Richard A. Muller. Copyright © 2008 by Richard A. Muller. Used by permission of W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.