MLA Quote Integration and Research
Budget: $10 – $30 USD
Brock Bennett Integrating Research Sources (Brock Bennett)
FIRST, make sure you've already read (A) Walker's "Everyday Use," (B) either one of the four sources in the "'Everyday Use'' Research Source Packet" or a ressearch source you found on the Alabama Virtual Library, and (C) the "MLA Integrating Quotations Handout." (All texts should be available under the READINGS course link to your left).
SECOND, pick one (1) quotation from the critical essay you read -- a quote that includes some phrase, sentence, or passage you found to be especially memorable, clear and concise, authoratative, or useful in terms of language for analysis. Present that quote on the discussion board in a format similar to what you might use in an actual research essay. Remember, just like a quote from a literary text, quotes from research sources must be "set up," or introduced, properly; integrated into a sentence you write; cited parenthetically in MLA format (with reference to the page number where the quote appears in the source); and throroughly explained in terms of how the quote supports the argument you made in your original Chopin essay. Unlike quotes from a literary text, however, research quotes must be introduced in a way that establishes the credentials, or authority, of the critic who authored the soruce.
THIRD, After writing and properly formatting your research source quote and citation, create an MLA works cited page entry for the research source, or critical essay (see the front page of the "'Everyday Use' Research Source Packet") and paste it beneath your quotation. Below is an example of how one of these discusson board posts might look had the assignment been focused around Chopin's "The Storm" instead of Walker's "Everyday Use":
There is some debate about how the story's final line should be interpreted. As literary scholar Lisa A. Kirby notes, "Critics have long interpreted this final line as having a multitude of meanings... Scholars like [Lawrence I.] Berkove read the final line in "the Storm" ironically... Other critics, meanwhile, say the line is Chopin's way of justifying Calixta and Alcee's affair... Some [even] claim that the closing line implies that no real harm has come from this affair and, in fact, Calixta's willingness to reject societal norms and and values might have actually improved the state of both her marriage and Alcee's" (5).
MLA Works Cited Entry: Kirby, Lisa A. "‘So the Storm Passed …’: Interrogating Race, Class, and Gender in Chopin’s ‘At the ’Cadian Ball’ and ‘The Storm’." Short Story Criticism, edited by Lawrence J. Trudeau, vol. 211, Gale, 2015. Gale Literature Resource Center. Accessed 6 Sept. 2023. Originally published in Kate Chopin in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Heather Ostman, Cambridge Scholars, 2008, pp. 91-104.
FIRST, make sure you've already read (A) Walker's "Everyday Use," (B) either one of the four sources in the "'Everyday Use'' Research Source Packet" or a ressearch source you found on the Alabama Virtual Library, and (C) the "MLA Integrating Quotations Handout." (All texts should be available under the READINGS course link to your left).
SECOND, pick one (1) quotation from the critical essay you read -- a quote that includes some phrase, sentence, or passage you found to be especially memorable, clear and concise, authoratative, or useful in terms of language for analysis. Present that quote on the discussion board in a format similar to what you might use in an actual research essay. Remember, just like a quote from a literary text, quotes from research sources must be "set up," or introduced, properly; integrated into a sentence you write; cited parenthetically in MLA format (with reference to the page number where the quote appears in the source); and throroughly explained in terms of how the quote supports the argument you made in your original Chopin essay. Unlike quotes from a literary text, however, research quotes must be introduced in a way that establishes the credentials, or authority, of the critic who authored the soruce.
THIRD, After writing and properly formatting your research source quote and citation, create an MLA works cited page entry for the research source, or critical essay (see the front page of the "'Everyday Use' Research Source Packet") and paste it beneath your quotation. Below is an example of how one of these discusson board posts might look had the assignment been focused around Chopin's "The Storm" instead of Walker's "Everyday Use":
There is some debate about how the story's final line should be interpreted. As literary scholar Lisa A. Kirby notes, "Critics have long interpreted this final line as having a multitude of meanings... Scholars like [Lawrence I.] Berkove read the final line in "the Storm" ironically... Other critics, meanwhile, say the line is Chopin's way of justifying Calixta and Alcee's affair... Some [even] claim that the closing line implies that no real harm has come from this affair and, in fact, Calixta's willingness to reject societal norms and and values might have actually improved the state of both her marriage and Alcee's" (5).
MLA Works Cited Entry: Kirby, Lisa A. "‘So the Storm Passed …’: Interrogating Race, Class, and Gender in Chopin’s ‘At the ’Cadian Ball’ and ‘The Storm’." Short Story Criticism, edited by Lawrence J. Trudeau, vol. 211, Gale, 2015. Gale Literature Resource Center. Accessed 6 Sept. 2023. Originally published in Kate Chopin in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Heather Ostman, Cambridge Scholars, 2008, pp. 91-104.