hello friends and welcome back to the channel in this video we are going to be talking about boats so what we're going to talk about is how to best incorporate quotations into your essay hmm alright so in previous videos what I did is I talked about how to put together a body paragraph in a body paragraph you need a topic sentence support and explanation so one of the forms of support that you will likely use is quotes so in every single essay this semester I'm going to be asking you to bringing bring in quotes into
your paragraphs so every single paper requires you to use quotes while some of the essays are letting you use personal examples quotes are going to be what you're going to need to do in order to soar flush that out whenever I want you to reference another text I mean use a quote so we're gonna talk about how to best incorporate quotes into your essays and because I like thing to keep things simple we're gonna do that in a three-step formula so the three-step process three step process - including quotes in your essay so think of
it this way and I'm gonna use this as a as a sort of about facility example so I'm going to use a famous quote so I'm gonna say something like down alright so what I have here is a really short paragraph where I say students shouldn't be afraid of school so there's my claim followed by a quote the only thing we have to fear is fear itself and then therefore students shouldn't be afraid of school technically speaking I have my topic sentence I have my support and a little bit of explanation but this is woefully
inadequate right this is hilariously woefully inadequate so what you would need to do to make this quote work is a number of things but following my three-step process will help so here one of the things that I see I don't know who's talking this is a quote but who is talking and that is the first thing that you need to do whenever you're bringing in a quote is introduce the author and why his/her opinion matters so sometimes what I will see with students is they'll say something like this Roosevelt said the only thing we have
to fear is fear itself well here's the trouble many people know who Roosevelt is but not everybody knows who Roosevelt is furthermore even if I know who Roosevelt is I'm not necessarily sure how exactly Roosevelt's expertise fits in here you know if for those of you who know Roosevelt was a prig was was a president what did the president have to know about school I'm not exactly sure so let me introduce the author and why his or her opinion matters so in this case students shouldn't be afraid of school I could say President Franklin Roosevelt
something identified who he is you a thing to fear because he led the country bring some scary times all right now what I have done is I have contextualized who is talking and why he is an expert on the issue I have introduced the author and why his or her opinion matters that's the first step next I said okay Roosevelt knew a thing or two about fear because he led the country during some scary times but now look at the quote is there anything that actually says Roosevelt says this for all I know you know
this sentence here is self-contained for all I know MC Hammer could have said this Justin Bieber could have said this I have not actually clarified who is doing the talking that's another problem and so the second part of using a quote in your essay is set up the quote with a few of your own words so use a few of your words so that you're never beginning the sentence with the quote um it can be as simple as a she explains or a he states or you can get a little bit more creative and connect
it to the context so I'll give you an example here so you could say after or during the Great Depression in the face of economic turmoil he stated well so in this case I have used a few of my own words to lead up to this quote so you know when I say he I mean Rosabelle you also understand the context to what I was talking about so in this case he's talking about fear and I've explained that he was talking about economic turmoil at the time so by the time you actually get to the
quote you already have an idea of why the quote matters so that is your second part finally you don't want to leave the quote hanging because and one of the reasons I include that this quote is what the hell does that mean the only thing we have to fear is fear itself it sounds cool but what does he mean by that it's not exactly obvious is it so what I need to do is explain what Oh means and /or why the quote matters I need to tell the reader what it means and then I need
to tell the reader why didn't I think this quote so let's do that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself what Roosevelt means here Skoosh okay so let's see what I just typed you where I've done as I said okay what Roosevelt means here is that this is a great example of something that I would call meta commentary which is alright I have included the quote but now I'm going to tell you what the quote means and why I chose it so I've explained that that what I think he means by miss
is that you know if people are afraid then they're gonna back to anyone in there they're gonna be defeated before they even try and then after I do that I explain why the quote matters okay why did you include this quote and I have here while Roosevelt was talking about the Great Depression the same principle can apply to college students students are afraid of their studies they won't even try to succeed they have to face their fears in order to do well in college therefore students should be it shouldn't be afraid of school so what
I've done is I have taken this tiny little sentence and by introducing the author using this quote explaining what the quote means and why the quote matters well I've really fleshed out this paragraph now haven't I um so in some the three-step process to including quotes in your essays introduce the author and why his or her opinion matters set up the quote with a few of your own words and then explain what the quote means and /or why it matters one way to remember this is what we call a quote sandwich so I'm gonna highlight
these guys here so in a way every quote you use needs to have be sandwiched in between your commentary the top piece of bread is like explaining what the quote means or who the author is why their opinion matters all that stuff then there's the meat of the quote and then you follow it up with explaining what the quote means and why it matters it is a good rule of thumb alright scroll down here good rule of thumb never begin or end never became more end a paragraph on a quote never begin or end a
paragraph on a quote so here's why if you do that your quote is not going to speak for itself your reader needs your help to show them who's talking why they matter why they should head why your reader should pay attention and then they need your help to explain it because if you don't explain it you're gonna be just like that sentence that I had at the beginning which was you know here's the point I'm making random quote the end that doesn't tell your reader anything it's your job to walk them through why the evidence
that you're providing why this quote is important it's not always obvious might be obvious to you up here but then what you need to do is you need to explain that thought process you had on the page and so in sum do your quote sandwiches introduce the author and whatever their opinion matters set up the quote with few of your own words quote it and then finally explain what the quote means and why it matters that should do it for me take
