ESSAY QUOTES / BLUE SHEET
The instruction sheet accessible via the button below provides MLA guidelines for a variety of quote structures and examples to illustrate the instruction.
Here is a sampling of what you will find:
Here is a sampling of what you will find:
- Page and paragraph numbers
- Author names in your sentences or in your parenthetical reference
- When to put the parenthetical information at the end of the sentence
- When to put the parenthetical information directly after the quote
- How to punctuate in both of the above options
- How to quote someone from another author's work, using the "quoted in" structure
- How to combine page numbers with additional information
Here is a brief sample to show how to work in punctuation within various sentence structures. Use the button above to learn much more.
In example 1, you use a comma because "and" connects two independent clauses.
1. "The day began as any other," and then the character walks naively into chaos (17).
In example 2, you use a semicolon because there is no coordinating conjunction between the two independent clauses. In this sentence, the clauses are connected with a conjunctive adverb.
2. "The day began as any other"; nevertheless, the character walks naively into chaos (17).
In example 3, you put the page number after the quote because the sentence was ended with that period.
3. "The day began as any other" (17). Nevertheless, the character walks naively into chaos.
In example 4, you put the page number after the quote because the ideas following the quote belong to the essayist, not the the novel or source.
4. "The day began as any other" (17); nevertheless, the subsequent and immediate chaos with which the character must endure demonstrates the author’s excellent juxtaposition of peaceful moments with crushingly horrible events.
In example 1, you use a comma because "and" connects two independent clauses.
1. "The day began as any other," and then the character walks naively into chaos (17).
In example 2, you use a semicolon because there is no coordinating conjunction between the two independent clauses. In this sentence, the clauses are connected with a conjunctive adverb.
2. "The day began as any other"; nevertheless, the character walks naively into chaos (17).
In example 3, you put the page number after the quote because the sentence was ended with that period.
3. "The day began as any other" (17). Nevertheless, the character walks naively into chaos.
In example 4, you put the page number after the quote because the ideas following the quote belong to the essayist, not the the novel or source.
4. "The day began as any other" (17); nevertheless, the subsequent and immediate chaos with which the character must endure demonstrates the author’s excellent juxtaposition of peaceful moments with crushingly horrible events.