If you have a good source for your paper you're writing about something like the causes of the civil war, or how will all our technology effect our lives and the lives of our children, and you really want to use a quotation from the book in your paper then there are a few simple rules you need to follow.
You can't begin by just through the quote out there without any context, so you need to introduce the subject for your quote, maybe with a nice topic sentence, then you need to name the author of the source where your quotation comes from, don't forget to maybe give a little information about what the source deals with. All thats left to do now is introduce the quote into a sentence and copy it word for word, no one wants to be misquoted, and cite your quote with an in-text citation.
Rules for quotations:
1) ID the Author of the book
2) preview the quote, i.e. give a little explanation of what the quote will be discussing.
3) then introduce the quote into a sentence, because sentences cannot begin with Quotations.
4) copy the quote word for word
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