Make a Quotation Work in a Paragraph
Introduce an exact quotation and explain its relevance.
Supplied materials
- Original fictional note by coordinator Mina: “The first trial recorded six visits, not six different visitors. We did not mark repeat visits.” Practice claim: The trial’s recorded attendance cannot yet establish how many individual people used it.
- Paper and pencil; spoken responses are welcome.
Learn the idea
A quotation should have a clear role in your paragraph. Introduce the source, copy the selected words exactly inside quotation marks, and explain how they support your claim. A quotation placed alone may leave the reader to guess its relevance. Here Mina’s distinction between visits and visitors directly supports caution about the number of people.
Use enough of the source to preserve meaning, but not so much that the quotation replaces your own reasoning. The sentence about repeat visits clarifies the limit. Your explanation should not turn six visits into six different people or infer that repeats definitely occurred; the note says they were not tracked. Explain what the source leaves unknown.
- State the practice claim in your own words.
- Introduce Mina’s note as the source.
- Quote the supplied first sentence exactly.
- Explain how unmarked repeats limit a unique-person count.
See the method in action
The trial does not establish the number of individual users. Mina writes, “The first trial recorded six visits, not six different visitors.” Because repeat visits were not marked, those six visits could represent fewer than six people; the note does not say whether repeats actually occurred.
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See the answer and explanation
Unmarked repeats mean visits cannot automatically be treated as distinct people.
The missing repeat marker leaves the unique-person count uncertain. The alternatives claim certainty or contradict the presence of recorded visits.
Take it further
Change the note to “The first trial recorded six visits by six different visitors; names were replaced with anonymous count marks for this fictional record.” Model reasoning: six distinct visitors are now stated, so that particular limit is removed. The record still gives no satisfaction or learning measure; do not substitute a new unsupported result.
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