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Quoting from Secondary Sources

 

1. Unedited quote with transition phrasing (first reference to source):

 

·         As critic Micah Anderson points out, “Heratica is ruthlessly efficient in eliminating religion.  Under pain of death, no citizen dares believe in anything but the state” (143).

2. Unedited quote with transition phrasing (later reference to source):

 

·         As Anderson points out, “Heratica is ruthlessly efficient in eliminating religion.  Under pain of death, no citizen dares believe in anything but the state” (143).

3. Unedited quote without transition phrasing (first or later reference):

·         “Heratica is ruthlessly efficient in eliminating religion.  Under pain of death, no citizen dares believe in anything but the state” (Anderson 143).

4. Edited quote (no ellipsis because obvious fragment, blended into style of writer’s 

    sentence, multiple works by critical source):

 

·         Driven by his own beliefs, Ryan Wiley does rebel, proclaiming “the primacy of men     over bureaucrats and despots, of truth over anti-truth, and of the individual conscience over all” (Hastings, Women Authors 257).

5. Edited quote (ellipsis to indicate a fragment which could be mistaken for a sentence):

 

·         As described by Anderson, “. . . Heratica represents the basest instincts of humankind; its values demand rebellion” (143).

 

6. Edited quote (blended into style of writer’s sentence, ellipsis to indicate missing

   wording from original):

 

·         Ryan Wiley stands “determined to resist oppression regardless of its source. . . . He believes in himself above all else” (McDuff 42).

 

7. Electronic source (no page number available, source indicated in wording of   sentence, no ellipsis because obvious fragment):

 

·         Rebecca Eaton praises Wiley as a hero, “resilient and creative, wise yet willing to grow.”

 

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