2. Quotation marks & Source
• “The lantern hanging at her wagon had
gone out, but another was shining in her
face-much brighter than her own had
been” (Hardy,43).
• The citation “(Hardy,43)” tells the reader
that the quote came from page 43 of
Hardy’s book and is not an original
comment of the paper writer.
3. • The citation (author’s name and page
number) is typed inside parenthesis.
• The parenthesis are placed after the
quotation marks and before the period to
show author ownership.
4. Embedding Quotes
• This means using bits and pieces of a
longer quote with in your own sentence.
• For example
– Hardy used “the lantern hanging at her
wagon” as a symbol of Tess’s future. So when
it “had gone out,” Hardy is foreshadowing that
the light in Tess’s future is going to go out in
some traumatic way (Hardy,43).
5. Ellipses
• “The alarm was soon given, […]
resounded with the tramp of many
footsteps, a surgeon among the rest”
(Hardy, 401).
• The ellipses show that part of the quote
was omitted for length purposes.
6. Using a Quotes in a Paragraph
• Start the paragraph with a topic sentence.
• Next, what is your major point?
• Use a quote that shows the major point.
• Explain in 2 sentences how that quote displays
your major point.
• What is your next major point?
• Use a quote that shows the major point.
• Explain in 2 sentences how that quote displays
your major point.
• Conclusive statement.
7. Sample Starting of a Paragraph
• Throughout Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Hardy utilizes
foreshadow to give little clues as to what is to come at
the end of the book. Hardy gives a sense of mystery
when foreshadowing deaths of principle players in the
book. “The lantern hanging at her wagon had gone
out, but another was shining in her face-much brighter
than her own had been” (Hardy, 43). By using “gone
out,” Hardy prepares the reader for the death of Prince.
Prince’s death is just the starting point of the downfalls
for Tess seen in the words “shining in her face.” Besides
Prince’s death, Hardy, early on, gives hints towards the
death of…
