Quotation marks are not needed for paraphrasing. Example: The dog he brings on the trip is eleven and "too old and arthritic to be allowed in December water" (Hall 372), but the fisherman selfishly ...

Remember to close the punctuation marks at the end of the quotation. Only use a capital letter in a quotation if one appears in the original text. The character of Scrooge is described as "self ...

Use an ellipsis (...) when you want to drop words out of a quote. Ex: Lincoln said, "Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth...a new nation." Single quotation marks are used to set ...