How to Integrate Quotes SEAMLESSLY in Your Essays

If you need to place excerpts from books, poems, interviews, or other texts in your own essays, you can use the 3 methods explained in this video to weave quotes into your sentences smoothly. These 3 techniques are especially helpful if you’re writing a literary analysis paper, a document-based essay, a research paper, or an article.

This video also explains how to correctly include in-text citations in MLA format and alter or omit parts of a quote in your essay. You’ll never have to use the phrase “the author writes” again!

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