Chapter 40: QUOTING & PARAPHRASING EXERCISE ---   Quotation Sandwiching Exercise (for Groups or Individuals)   This exercise provides you with practice in sandwiching a quotation in groups or pairs or as individuals.  Writing a quotation is more than just simply slapping it into place.  Once you know where you want to place it, you need to also “sandwich” it: to add an introductory sentence or two above (before) it and a concluding sentence below (after) it:     /         A summary of the quo-       \ / tation & its background details. \                     Author says,“Quotation.”      . ___________________________ \   Statement of the quotation's    / \ connection to section subtitle. /   1.  Here is an imaginary paragraph with a topic sentence and a quotation (in an imaginary paper):                Another problem is that many people were afraid. Smith mentions one example of this fear. He says, “She told them to hurry up and run over there so they wouldn’t be hurt” (153).    2. Pretend the paper and paragraph in “1” are yours.  Then please sandwich this quotation. First, answer questions “a”-“g” below.  Then use them to create one to three sentences before the quotation. You will need to make up information for “a”-“g” (but never make up information in a real paper.)   a.      Who is the “she”? __________________________________________        b.      Who are “them”/“they”? _____________________________________   c.     What, overall, is happening in this quotation? ____________________   _________________________________________________________    d.      Where is “there”? __________________________________________   e.       When is this happening? _____________________________________   f.     How would they be “hurt”? ____________________________________    g.     Why (or how) are these people there? __________________________      3. After answering “a”-“g,” summarize all of your answers in one to three sentences.   4. Next, rewrite the paragraph above as follows:     ·        (A) Start with the same two beginning sentences (“Another . . . fear.”) ·        (B) Add our own one to three clear, easy-to-read background sentences from “3,” above. ·        (C) Add the quotation itself. ·        (D) Add a new, abstract (general) final sentence stating how the quotation ties in with the main idea in your imaginary body section or your entire paper.   5. Present this final paragraph (on the classroom whiteboard, orally to the class, or individually to the instructor) in an easy-to-read printed form or a very legible handwritten form.   6. And then, invent a difficult-to-sandwich quotation of your own.  Provide all three parts of the sandwich: (a) the introductory background/summary, (b) the quotation, and (c) the tie-in sentence—how it ties in to your overall body section or paper.  --- Return to top