College Composition / Unit 23 CMP 0565 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Explaining a Quotation
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The idea
Quotations do not speak for themselves; follow each with your explanation of its meaning and relevance.
In practice
After quoting a writer on city dwellers' blindness to where food comes from, a student explains that the writer sees them as dangerously unaware of how their needs are met.
Where people slip
A quotation left unexplained forces readers to guess why it matters.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
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