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Using quotations

A feature of all good essays is concerned with providing support for your ideas from the text you are examining. Evidence exists in terms of reference to particular details - whether moments, scenes or events - but it also, and perhaps more frequently, exists in the form of direct quotation. Quotations can be used in essays in different ways, although the most common (for very good reasons) is to embed shorter...

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