College Composition / Unit 23 CMP 0572 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Too Many Quotations
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The idea
Unless a source is itself the topic, as in literary analysis, quotations should be few and short.
In practice
The anchor suggests limiting brief quotations to about two per page and long ones to about one every three pages.
Where people slip
When a paragraph is crowded with quotations, paraphrase or summarize most of them and quote only the most precise words.
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