What Is a Drop Quote Example?
What Are They? Dropped Quotations Are Lines or Passages from the Text That Stand Alone as Sentences, or Are Spliced into Sentences in a Grammatically Incorrect...
What are they? Dropped quotations are lines or passages from the text that stand alone as sentences, or are spliced into sentences in a grammatically incorrect manner. For example: In his short story, “Little Things,” Raymond Carver clearly shows a conflict between the two characters.
How do you write a drop quote?
Basics
- Block quotations start on their own line.
- The entire block quotation is indented 0.5 inches, the same as the indentation for a new paragraph, and is double spaced.
- Block quotations are not surrounded by any quotation marks.
- The punctuation at the end of the block quotation goes before the citation.
What do you do to avoid a dropped quote?
One of the best ways to let readers know more about your source is to use a signal phrase. Signal phrases help readers “move from your own words to the words of a source without feeling a jolt” (Hacker 406). A writer uses signal phrases to avoid dropped quotations, smoothly leading the reader into the source's ideas.
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