Caleb emailed me with a question which I thought would be beneficial to everyone. I'm quoting his email below. My answer follows... (See blue text for the important parts.)
Hey ally, for the lit paper do want us to actually quote the lines or just put down scene,act,line numbers in parentheses, and if you want us to actually quote the lines should we pick only a few to do and should we try to pick the best line from a large dialog section or just use alot of quotes and long sections of dialog that apply?
I prefer "reasonably-lengthed" quotes - one to three lines. If you have a lengthy quote (i.e. dialogue) then it should be supported by equally lengthy personal thoughts/points on your part. Does that make sense?
Please write out the quote and include the reference in parentheses at the end of the sentence. Of course if you're simply referencing a quote, you only need to put the act, scene and line. (For example: "References to Friar Lawrence's ill advise abound [i.e., 7.1.89, 11.4.13].")
Make sense?
Email or leave a comment with other questions.
Ally
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I logged into engrade again...were you able to see it? I can see the assignment and everything...
hey ally! I got confused about how to cite the act, scene and line numbers. Is it 1.3.xxvi, or I.iii.26?
heheh, sorry, another q! :) I can't get into the Pilgrim's Progress excerpt you had on engrade. Do you know how I can get that?
dito what cat said about engrade
let's see if i can help with for engrade:
if you go to the calendar (a tab at the top) and click on Pilgrims Progress, you should be able to find the attachment in there.
one question... if we're quoting a few lines, should we write like 3.4.15-18, or do we just do 3.4.15?
thanx rachel
There's no way to get to the Pilgrim's progress excerpt from my computer. I did everything that Rachel wrote, and it led me to the right place, but when I clicked on Pilgrim's Progress, it said I needed to insert a disk. Meaning the disk that contains the excerpt. Help!
yeah, that's what happened to me. I figured it out this morning, then it said I had to install some sort of software to get into the doc. =/ should we just get the excerpt off sparknotes?
yeah, I'm with you monica. I figured out how to get to it early morning or so then found out I had to install some sort of software to see it.
should we just get the excerpt off sparknotes?
sorry for making things difficult. =/
wow. sorry for posting the same thing twice. my computer is messing up. :)
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