Focus this week: Embedding quotes in a research paper
This week I trekked through the various pages of embedding quote and went through the selection of notes. Although this seemed to be something so repetitive and something that I thought I knew how to do, I learned a few different methods of placing quotes into my future research paper.
Methods such as sandwiching, setting off quotes, introducing with the use of colons, and building in quotes were new methods I tried out during the week. These were methods I had heard about (maybe not by name) and had seen multiple times in papers.
On top of learning these methods, I also learned how to actually use brackets and an ellipsis in writing. Both of these options were something I had seen so many times before but never quite knew how to use them myself. Through the help of the guidelines on the papers, I was able to see and understand how and why they should be used. It helped open my eyes to why a writer would use something like brackets or use an ellipsis.
Through many of the in-class activities where I was pulling either my own quotes or using the ones provided, I was able to see how to execute a process like putting quotes in so they weren’t floating.
This week of embedding quotes helped me create an idea in my head of how to put quotes logically into a research paper, something I hadn’t considered before. I used to just drop them into the random placement of a paragraph to just hit a word count or length in a page. After some practice and close note taking, I was able to work through the methods of embedding quotes without just dropping them and leaving them floating.
Week of 2-19-19 work: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IlV0SvSIgm7GgHVoUtcsLq319c9_r3jy65nlg6UTnAU/edit
A.D Sugarbaker 