Walden

ACTIVITY A
1. What is a quote?
A quote, like it says, is some text that was written by someone else and that you would like to display in your own writing. Quoted text is displayed in a specialformat, as you can see on the image below.

2. What are the different uses of quoting?
Setting off quotations
When you quote directly from a printed or non-printed source, you must enclose thequoted text, be it a fragment or a full statement, in quotation marks, both in the beginning and end of the quoted text. In MLA style, if a quotation is no more than 4 lines long, it is considered shortand thus incorporated into the text.Documentation information (reference to the origin of the quote) is given before the sentence's ending period.
Whenever I learn a new language, I am always remindedof my high-school French teacher who always used to say that "practice makes perfect."
[Fragment in a short quote incorporated into the general text body]

Text body...After surveying a largecorpus of research, Smith contends that "according to recent educational surveys, it is largely accepted that English has now become so widely spoken around the world that it can easily be regarded as the'international language' of the 21st century" (Smith, 2005) . Other researchers further support this notion by...

Quotation marks for setting off dialog and poetry

1. When writing the exactwords (direct words) of a speaker quoted in dialog, you need to set the speech apart from the narrative (the words of the author telling the story) and differentiate between the different speakers' words.Therefore, enclose the words of each speaker's line with both opening and closing quotation marks. Non-dialog text may appear in the same paragraph as dialog.

2. When writing a dialog, you shouldstart a new paragraph every time the writer changes. If the spoken lines are brief and you prefer to keep all information pertaining to a certain scene together, then you may start a new paragraph...