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Correctly Integrating Quotations Never leave a quotation naked! You wouldn’t wear clothes that only cover up the front-side or the back-side of your body, so don’t leave your quotation half naked either. Clothe the Front There are two ways to begin a sentence that includes a quotation. Use a signal phrase. Integrate the author’s words into your own writing. Signal Phrases A signal phrase indicates that you are about to use language that is not your own. Signal Phrases Example: Puritan author Anne Bradstreet observes, (See page 120 of A Pocket Style Manual for a list of verbs to use in signal phrases) Example 1 Revise: Benjamin Franklin, one Cavalier author, portrayed his worldview through his works, “… I thought I knew what was right and wrong…” (Franklin 114). WARNING Just adding a quotation to the end of a related sentence does not mean that you have used a signal phrase. Example 1 Fixed: Benjamin Franklin, one Cavalier author, portrays his worldview through his works, saying, “… I thought I knew what was right and wrong…” (114). Example 2 Revise: She also shows a reliance on God, “and to [her] God [her] heart did cry to strengthen [her] in [her] distress” (15). Example 2 Fixed: She also shows a reliance on God, stating, “and to my God my heart did cry to strengthen me in my distress” (Bradstreet 15). Example 3 Revise: He writes of the journey he undertakes in which he tries to achieve perfection. “It was about this time [he] conceived the bold and arduous project of arriving at moral perfection” (114). Example 3 Fixed: About his journey to achieve perfection, Franklin writes, “It was about this time I conceived the bold and arduous project of arriving at moral perfection” (114). Example 4 Revise: “And to my God my heart did cry/ to strengthen me in my distress/ and not to leave me succorless” (Bradstreet lines 8-10). These words, penned by Anne Bradstreet after her house burned down, also demonstrate the Puritans’ trust in God’s plan and not “