1.Select 4 passages from The Guardians relevant to your essay topic.   2.Devote an entire paragraph to your discussion of each quotation. 3. In a well-developed paragraph, discuss the quotation.  Foll

Quotation Analysis(THE GUARDIANS)

1.Select 4 passages from The Guardians relevant to your essay topic.  

2.Devote an entire paragraph to your discussion of each quotation.

3. In a well-developed paragraph, discuss the quotation.  Follow the format discussed in class (see the PowerPoint lecture on close reading).

4.You should have a minimum of four paragraphs.

5.Include a Works Cited entry for this novel (a separate Works Cited page is not necessary for the Quotation Analysis).

Review your work!

Do not begin paragraphs with a quotation.

Do not separate quotation from discussion. Quotation and discussion should be contained in the same paragraph.

Begin each paragraph with a topic sentence that expresses the paragraph's main idea, an idea that is related to the quoted passage.

Include details necessary for your reader to understand the context of the quotation.

Enclosed word-for-word quotations in quotation marks

Include the entire quotation you wish for readers to read though you may omit necessary language use the ellipses (...)

Do not drop quotations. Check to make sure that you included a signal phrase of some kind.

Include the page number in parentheses following each quotation. For works of literature, omit the author's name in the parenthetical citation.

Did you discuss the quotation and how it connects to your topic sentence? You should