Transcript Integrating Quotations - Coastal Carolina University

INCORPORATING QUOTATIONS
INTO YOUR OWN WRITING-PART II
CCU Writing Center
All four parts
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Attribution
Limitation
Integration
Documentation
In a recent study on the effects of coffee drinking,
researchers at the National Institutes of Health found
that one cup per day “was associated with a 6% lower
risk of dying among men and a 5% lower risk among
women” (Gardner).
The Situation
A teacher asks you to analyze President Obama’s
2012 State of the Union Address and to consider
the Republican response to that Address in your
analysis.
Ideas, ideas, ideas
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The economy/the recession
Manufacturing
Jobs and unemployment
Tax policy
Energy issues
Education issues
Your Plan
To show how President Obama persuades his audience to
be optimistic about the potential for change in this
country. He accomplishes this goal by using hopeful and
positive language to describe his vision for:
the energy crisis
 the economy
 education
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He also uses negative and pessimistic language to
describe the ideas of his opponents and his
predecessors.
An Important Passage
From Pres. Obama’s 2012 State of the Union Address:
“We’ve subsidized oil companies for a century. That’s
long enough. It’s time to end the taxpayer
giveaways to an industry that rarely has been more
profitable, and double-down on a clean energy
industry that never has been more promising. Pass
clean energy tax credits. Create these jobs.”
Which words and phrases would you use from this?
Key Words and Phrases
“for a century”
 “That’s long enough”
 “taxpayer giveaways”
 “double down”
 “Pass clean energy tax credits.
Create these jobs.”
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Put it all together
President Obama described government subsidies
of the oil industry as “taxpayer giveaways” and
said that it is time to “double down on a clean
energy industry that has never been more
promising.”
And- Mr. Obama called on congressional leaders to “Pass
clean energy credits” and almost begged them to
“Create these jobs.”
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On the Works Cited page
Obama, Barak. “Remarks by the President in State of
the Union Address.” Whitehouse.gov. United States
Government. 24 January 2012. Web. 10 May
2012.
For Comparison
From the Republican response to Obama’s Address:
“The extremism that stifles the development of
homegrown energy, or cancels a perfectly safe
pipeline that would employ tens of thousands, or
jacks up consumer utility bills for no improvement in
either human health or world temperature, is a propoverty policy.”
--Mitch Daniels, Governor of Indiana
Key Words and Phrases
“extremism”
 “stifles the development of
homegrown energy”
 “cancels a perfectly safe pipeline”
 “jacks up consumer utility bills”
 “pro-poverty policy”
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Put it all together
“The extremism that stifles the development of homegrown
energy, or cancels a perfectly safe pipeline that would
employ tens of thousands, or jacks up consumer utility
bills for no improvement in either human health or world
temperature, is a pro-poverty policy.”
--Mitch Daniels, Governor of Indiana
Write two sentences in which you use phrases from the
passage above.
Remember all four of the principles we have covered:
(Attribution, Limitation, Integration, and Documentation).
Remember
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Attribution (Who said it? Who’s that?)
Limitation (What is important or special in the
passage?)
Integration (How can the important parts be
inserted into your writing?)
Documentation (Where can the reader find the
source for the quotation?)
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