Quoting from Secondary Sources
1.
Direct quote with transition phrasing (first direct reference to source in text
of paper):
·
As
critic Micah Anderson points out, “Heratica is ruthlessly efficient in
eliminating religion. Under pain of
death, no citizen dares believe in anything but the state” (143).
2.
Direct quote with transition phrasing (later reference to source in text of
paper):
·
As
Anderson
points
out, “Heratica is ruthlessly efficient in eliminating religion. Under pain of death, no citizen dares believe
in anything but the state” (143).
3. Direct quote without transition phrasing
(first or later reference):
·
“Heratica
is ruthlessly efficient in eliminating religion. Under pain of death, no citizen dares believe
in anything but the state” (
Anderson
143).
4.
Edited quote (no ellipsis because obvious fragment, blended into style of writer’s
sentence, multiple works by critical
source):
·
Driven
by his own beliefs, Ryan Wiley does rebel, proclaiming “the primacy of men over bureaucrats and despots, of truth over
anti-truth, and of the individual conscience over all” (Hastings, Women
Authors 257).
5.
Edited quote (ellipsis to indicate a fragment which could be mistaken for a
sentence):
·
As described by
Anderson
, “. . . Heratica
represents the basest instincts of humankind; its values demand rebellion”
(143).
6.
Edited quote (blended into style of writer’s sentence, ellipsis to indicate missing
wording from original):
·
Ryan Wiley stands
“determined to resist oppression regardless of its source. . . He believes in
himself above all else” (McDuff 42).
7.
Electronic source (no page number available, source directly indicated in
wording of sentence, no ellipsis because
obvious fragment):
·
Rebecca Eaton
praises Wiley as a hero, “resilient and creative, wise yet willing to grow.”