How do i directly quote something?

Answer 1

You must set it off by using quotation marks and making it seem as if it is a new paragraph. If you are writing a paper, you must footnote it and reference the source and author of the quote.

Answer 2

First, you should be commended for asking the question. It is important to give credit and avoid plagiarizing.

There are many "styles" of giving credit, so you need to ask what the school's required style is. It might be MLA or Chicago or APA or AAA. These probably sound confusing, but really they are different ways of documenting the same information.

To quote something directly, you have a choice to make. Will you give the credit in the body of the paper or only at the end (Bibliography/Works Cited)? If you want to cite the work in the body of the paper it might look something like this:

"quote whatever you want" (author's last name, year of copyright:page number).

OR

Author's name said, "quote whatever you want" (year of copyright, page number).

Using the punctuation is key! Some style manuals ask for commas, some periods, some colons. It depends!

When you quote something - even if you cite it in the body of your paper - you will need to create a Bibliography at the end of your paper which gives all the details about the source.

Technology gives us some great help these days, though. If you go to www.noodletools.com/noodlebib/ (or similar sites) you can simply enter the information and the tool will create the bibliography for you with all of the correct punctuation and spacing. You can even choose between APA or MLA style. Very handy!

Answer 3

say... quote, unquote "quote here"...