1. Review Sample Literary Analysis Paragraph.
2. Form groups of three.
3. Compare passages you found from the
“Desiree’s Baby” secondary sources.
4. Identify a one- or two-sentence passage to
add to the sample paragraph.
Quotations
• Borrowed ideas presented in the exact language
of the source.
• Must be enclosed in quotation marks
• Use the source’s words, punctuation, spacing,
etc. exactly as they appear in the source (unless
indicated with ellipsis points or brackets)
Essay 3 Requirements
• About six quoted lines per page (15% of essay).
• Use select quotations from stories to illustrate your
observations or provide needed detail.
• Use at least two quotations from secondary sources to
supplement your own ideas and to showcase the writing
style of a source.
• Save quotations for the insightful, well-written source
material.
Integrating Quotations Correctly
• Introduce the quotation
– Use a short phrase with a comma
– Use a full sentence with a colon
– Combine with your own sentence with no additional
punctuation
• Include the writer’s name.
• Include the page number (if there is one) in
parentheses at the end of the quotation.
Short Phrase with Comma
• PRIMARY: As Desiree herself claims, “It is a lie; it is not
true, I am white!” (Chopin).
• NOTES:
– You also may need to indicate which character is speaking
– Not all of the stories for Essay 3 have page numbers.
Full Sentence with Colon
• PRIMARY: Montressor sums up his philosophy of
revenge in the first paragraph of the story: "I must
not only punish, but punish with impunity" (Poe 346).
• NOT: Montressor sums up his philosophy of revenge
in the first paragraph of the story. "I must not only
punish, but punish with impunity" (Poe 346).
• NOT: Montressor sums up his philosophy of revenge
in the first paragraph of the story, "I must not only
punish, but punish with impunity" (Poe 346).
Your Sentence, No Punctuation
• PRIMARY: Desiree "disappeared among the reeds and
willows" and never returns to L'Abri (Chopin).
Short Phrase with Comma
• SECONDARY: As Foy indicates, “she leaves it to the
reader to decide whether Armand’s cruelty springs from
social forces and prejudice . . .” (223).
• NOTE: The author’s name may be in the introduction.
Full Sentence with Colon
• SECONDARY: One writer claims that Chopin does not
fully reveal why Armand behaves as he does: “she
leaves it to the reader to decide whether Armand’s
cruelty springs from social forces and prejudice . . .”
(Foy 223).
• NOTE: The author’s name may be in the parentheses.
Your Sentence, No Punctuation
• SECONDARY: Foy points out that it is difficult to
determine if “Armand’s cruelty springs from social
forces and prejudice . . .” (223).
It has to make sense!
• Fit the quotation grammatically and logically into your
sentence
• NOT: According to Foy, “Although Chopin offers these
clues to Armand’s dark side and to his psychological
confusion . . .” (223).
• NOT: As Foy points out, “Armand’s cruelty springs from
social forces and prejudice or whether it is in reality a
distant memory of his mother . . .” (223).
Be selective.
• Enlarge and refine your ideas.
• NOT: As Foy writes, “Armand was eight years old . . .
when his mother died and he left Paris with his father”
(222-23).
• NOT: According to Wolff, Armand fell for Desiree “as if
struck by a pistol shot” (82).
• NOT: In discussing “Desiree’s Baby,” Wolff points out
that it “was the one piece of Chopin’s fiction most
likely to be known . . .” (81).
Group Exercise (15 points)
1. Copy and paste the Sample Literary Analysis Paragraph
into a word-processing file three times.
2. Correctly integrate the passage you found earlier into
the Sample Literary Analysis paragraph using each of
the three methods for introducing a quotation.
3. Place each introduction, quotation, and parentheses in
boldface.