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hi everyone and welcome to si advice today we're going to be having a look at quote integration in essays essentially this guide is going to have a look at how to use quotations in an effective way within your body paragraphs so when we're looking at using quotations in essays remember that less is more it is an absolute myth that long quotations sentences long are what we want in text response essays in actual fact a few words a quote of two to three words is ideal instead and we'll have a look at how to use that in a second always explain the quotation significance never just put a quote in for the sake of putting it in it needs to add value to your argument and the last tip is to avoid retelling the plot before and after the quotation good essays don't retail or summarize what's happened in a novel you can assume when you're writing a text response essay that the reader knows the book or the film and they know it really well so avoid retelling as much as possible in this video we're going to be looking at how to integrate a quotation into a sentence so this means that we're not actually going to be putting in full sentences or multiple sentences of quotations because as we said earlier less is actually more inner quotation so to start with choose a quotation which helps to prove your argument don't use a quotation if it doesn't add more value to your argument decide on the important part of the quotation and then put the quote into your sentence so for example let's have a look at this quotation from Of Mice and Men he was so scared he couldn't let go of that dress and he's so goddamn strong you know that's the original quotation that I'm going to be working with and what I've had a look at is the segments of the quotes I would like to use from that what I really want to display is that Lennie's disposition and his character is fatally flawed because he's simultaneously not very intelligent he freaks out when he's really really scared and he's extremely strong and the combination of these three things make him fatally flawed so the segments I'm probably going to use are so scared or Lenny's so goddamn strong now have a look at how I use the square brackets there notice that in the original quotation it said he's so goddamn strong and I used the square brackets because I changed the quotation so if you've ever found a quotation you want to change it slightly square brackets are your best friend now let's have a look at how I embed that into a sentence and how I then explain the quotation afterwards in weed Lennie was so scared of causing strife that he couldn't let go of a young lady's dress this is one of many occasions where we discover Lenny's flawed character traits he literally could not control his behavior and actions so what we can see there that I didn't really read her plot from that section you can't really tell too much about what the plot is but you can gain a good understanding of who Linnaeus as a person that's actually what's adding value to my essay and my body paragraph final advice for using quotations in your body paragraphs first of all keep the quotations short and sharp around two to four words per quotation is all that you need use square brackets when you're editing or altering a quotation remembering that you can't actually change the original meaning you can only really change it to add more fluency to the sentence don't forget to explain the significance of the quotation and choose the quotations carefully they need to add value to your arguments not just be quotations that are in an essay for the sake of it all the best of luck [Music] [Music]