Transcript Quote Sandwiches

Quote Sandwiches
TSIS Ch. 3
Using Sources and Giving Credit
• You’ve found your sources, read them, annotated them, and
you’re ready to use your sources in your essay.
• So… which quotes should you use?
– Quotes that contain ideas you want to respond to.
– Quotes where the original source’s wording is especially good or
important to your response.
– Quotes where the original source explains a complex idea clearly and
succinctly.
– Quotes that contain ideas that would make most people want proof.
• Any quote you use should have an explanation/response that is
TWICE AS LONG as the original quote. If a quote takes up two full
lines of your paper, the explanation/response to that quote
should take up FOUR.
They Say / I Say: Chapter 3
• Quotations give your interaction with the
ideas of your sources credibility. (p. 42)
• Choose quotes that support your claim, and
be flexible. This may change as you write.
• Frame your quotes. (See how to make a
“quote sandwich” on p. 46)
• A bad example of how to use a quotation is on
p. 45, and the improved example on p. 47.
The “Quote Sandwich”
• This is a way to integrate quotes into your paper
smoothly and avoid drop-in quotes.
• The first piece of “bread”
– Introduce quote, possibly mention author, connect
quote to what you were saying before.
• The “Meat”
– Your quote, correctly cited with in-text citation.
• The second piece of “bread”
– Interpretation/explanation of quote (NOT simply
rewording the quote), connect quote to what you will
say next.
Online Examples of Quote Sandwiches
• http://www.csun.edu/~hflrc006/quote.html
• https://sites.google.com/site/sasamtani/quot
e_sandwich003.jpg
• Notice that both of these examples make the
quote a part of a sentence the essay author
wrote, and notice that both examples give
credit to the source’s author.
Quote Sandwich Practice
• If you brought a possible source for Essay #1 with
you today, choose a quote that you would like to
respond to. Then, write a paragraph that
includes the quote you chose in a quote
sandwich. Remember, you need to INTRODUCE
the quote by putting in in context, USE the quote
with a correct in-text citation, and RESPOND to
the quote by adding something new to the
discussion.
• If you did not bring a source, you must do this
practice with one of the essays we have read as a
class.