For the Christmas concert our class is singing The Twelve Days of Christmas.

How do you start a quote. Two quotes in the main body will do just fine. Use your own words to open and close. Starting with a quote can be effective but dont assume just any quotation will grab your audiences attention.

Quote in the middle. Ive watched speakers open with a quotation that wasnt very powerful and even irrelevant to their content. When considering how to start with a quote there are some tips that would certainly prove useful.

When looking for them stick to your aim is it to inspire prove a point alert invite action prove complexity or delicate nature of an issue create good mood by using some humor etc. First you introduce a focal sentence of a paragraph highlighting your point of view regarding a topic. Page 81 of the handbook says If the fact that you omitted material from a sentence or series of sentences is not obvious you must mark the omission with ellipsis points or three spaced periods The handbook does not however provide an example of when you might need to insert an ellipsis at the beginning of a quotation because instances when you would need to do so are rare.

A short quotation at the beginning of a chapter or article is called an epigraph. How to Quote a Quote. Dont use the words of another person to stand in for your own.

Start with a short sentence that captures the reason why you are interested in studying the area you are applying for and that communicates your enthusiasm for it. With American English you begin with double-quotes. If you do use a quote you must introduce it correctly so that the reader understands why it is there and who said it.

Only the authors name and only the authors last name if he or she is well-known and the books title should be given in italics. For instance a humorous quote does not set up a paper on slavery well. The quote is treated like an extract and indented from the left margin.