Notes
Time to focus on working with quoted material. As
I mentioned before, quotes
are your evidence, so don't just drop them in to satisfy a requirement.
You need them to support your assertions, to prove that you're right
and not just makin' stuff up.
Think of it like a trail. If you were to act as a
prosecutor and have no evidence to prove your case, you'd lose, right?
You need evidence to prove your point, and not only that, you have
to explain how the evidence supports it!
In the AEES model, quotes
are the first E and are supported by the second E, Explanation. Look
at this section from the example essay:
(E1) She explains that
the smell of her own home is a “mystery” because “I
couldn’t smell it at all. I didn’t think it had a smell,
which was strange considering all that went on there” (10). (E2) Here,
she notes how strange this mystery is since her house is pungent
with several competing odors, so it seems to her like there should
be some smell she can detect, but she doesn’t notice anything
at all until one of the Bleach People comments on it (11).
See that the explanation immediately follows the
quote to help the reader focus on what I want them to focus
on. Also see that I set up the quote with a signal phrase that lets
the read know the quote is coming.
Read about integrating quotations in
preparation for this week's assignment, and keep in mind that the
work you're doing here can be used in the essay on Frankenstein and
the definition of evil you have due on February 25.
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