English Composition › Section G · The evaluation or review › Topic G.3
Editing focus: using quotations
A well-chosen quotation lets readers hear the evidence for themselves. Choosing it, introducing it, trimming it and punctuating it correctly are what turn a borrowed sentence into support for your own point.
In this topic
- Why quote at all?
- When a quotation beats a paraphrase
- Support, don't substitute
- Signal phrases and their punctuation
- Interrupted quotations and end punctuation
- Citations and long quotations
- Ellipses: showing what you left out
- Brackets: making a quotation fit
- Worked example: trimming and clarifying
- Worked example: a model paragraph
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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