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.