"But you should have been with me in Utopia," said Raphael, "and seen with your own eyes their manners and customs as I did- for I lived there more than five years, and would have never left, if i had not been to make that new world known to others. If you had seen them, you would frankly confess that you had never seen people so well governed as they are" (29).
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If you are using MLA style, you need to "block quote" any quotation that is longer than 4 full lines of text. This means that you hit tab twice (about 10 spaces) to indent each line on the left margin (you do NOT indent on the right margin). When you block quote, the quote is not put in quotation marks (I put the dialogue in single quotes because it reflects dialogue), and the period is placed before the page number citation, with no punctuation after the citation (for block quotes, you do the opposite of the regular MLA rules--I don't known why the MLA does this, except to make it confusing!). Your citation should look like this:
Imagine that this is your paragraph and you are introducing your quote here:
'But you should have been with me in Utopia,' said
Raphael, 'and seen with your own eyes their
manners and customs as I did- for I lived there more
than five years, and would have never left, if i had
not been to make that new world known to others. If
you had seen them, you would frankly confess that
you had never seen people so well governed as they
are.' (29)
Yahoo! will not show the indenting that I did, so remember, your paper should look like this, EXCEPT that each line of the quote should be indented 10 spaces on the left side only (hit tab twice).
Hope this helps you!
Offset just means indent the quote five extra spaces and it stands by itself, as its own paragraph. This is for any quote longer than three lines. You need an extra set of quotes around the first word as you are beginning with an imbedded quote within your quote. If you have named the author before you do not need to do this, but if you have not you need to put the author's last name before the page number.
I am pretty sure your teacher meant to indent the quote from both sides or 'block quote' the long quote. Like this:
___"But you should have been with me in Utopia," ___
___said Raphael, "and seen with your own eyes ____
___their manners and custorms as I did - for I lived___
___there more than five years, and would have _____
___never left, if I had not been to make that new ____
___world known to others. If you had seen them, ___
___you would frankly confess that you had never ___
___seen people so well governed as they are"(29)
Ignore the ___ lines, I just put them there to indicate the extra space on either side of the quoted text, between the text and the margin.
Hope that helps!
Jen
first you temme, why didn't you ask ur own teacher?
well, it simply means, 'off'..... to break it and 'set'.... well, you already got a set of sentences. i wud rather say, "breakin d sentences"!
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