Quote Sandwiches

TSIS Ch. 3

Using Sources and Giving Credit• You’ve found your sources, read them, annotated them, and you’re

ready to use your sources in your essay. • So… which quotes should you use?

– Quotes that contain ideas you want to respond to. – Quotes where the original source’s wording is especially good or important to

your response. – Quotes where the original source explains a complex idea clearly and

succinctly.– Quotes that contain ideas that would make most people want proof.

• Any quote you use should have an explanation/response that is TWICE AS LONG as the original quote. If a quote takes up two full lines of your paper, the explanation/response to that quote should take up FOUR.

They Say / I Say: Chapter 3

• Quotations give your interaction with the ideas of your sources credibility. (p. 42)

• Choose quotes that support your claim, and be flexible. This may change as you write.

• Frame your quotes. (See how to make a “quote sandwich” on p. 46)

• A bad example of how to use a quotation is on p. 45, and the improved example on p. 47.

The “Quote Sandwich”

• This is a way to integrate quotes into your paper smoothly and avoid drop-in quotes.

• The first piece of “bread”– Introduce quote, possibly mention author, connect quote

to what you were saying before.• The “Meat”– Your quote, correctly cited with in-text citation.

• The second piece of “bread”– Interpretation/explanation of quote (NOT simply rewording

the quote), connect quote to what you will say next.

Online Examples of Quote Sandwiches

• http://www.csun.edu/~hflrc006/quote.html• https://sites.google.com/site/sasamtani/quote

_sandwich003.jpg• Notice that both of these examples make the

quote a part of a sentence the essay author wrote, and notice that both examples give credit to the source’s author.

Quote Sandwich Practice

• If you brought a possible source for Essay #1 with you today, choose a quote that you would like to respond to. Then, write a paragraph that includes the quote you chose in a quote sandwich. Remember, you need to INTRODUCE the quote by putting in in context, USE the quote with a correct in-text citation, and RESPOND to the quote by adding something new to the discussion.

• If you did not bring a source, you must do this practice with one of the essays we have read as a class.