A-manual-for-writers-of-research-papers-theses-and-dissertations

If you quote more than one paragraph, do not add extra lines between them, but indent thefirst line of the second and subsequent paragraphs further than the rest of the quotation.He observed thatgovernments ordinarily perish by powerlessness or by tyranny. In the first case, power escapes them; inthe other, it is torn from them.Many people, on seeing democratic states fall into anarchy, have thought that government in thesestates was naturally weak and powerless. The truth is that when war among their parties has once been setaflame, government loses its action on society. (Tocqueville, 248)If you cite the source in a footnote or endnote, place the note number as a superscript at theend of the block quotation, as in the first example above (see also 16.3.2). If you cite thesource parenthetically, put the citation after the terminal punctuation of a block quotation, asin the second example above. (Note that this differs from its placement with a run-inquotation, as described in 25.2.1.)POETRY AND DRAMA. Present a quotation of two or more lines from poetry as a blockquotation. Begin each line of the poem on a new line, with punctuation at the ends of lines asin the original. For most papers, indent a block of poetry as you would a prose quotation; if aline is too long to fit on a single line, indent the runover further than the rest of the quotation.But in a dissertation or other longer paper that includes many poetry quotations, center eachquotation on the page.Whitman's poem includes some memorable passages:My tongue, every atom of my blood, form'd fromthis soil, this air,Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their parents the sameI, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin,Hoping to cease not till death.If you are quoting a poem with an unusual alignment, reproduce the alignment of theoriginal.This is what Herbert captured so beautifully:Sure there was wineBefore my sighs did drie it: there was cornBefore my tears did drown it.Is the yeare onely lost to me?Have I no bayes to crown it?No flowers, no garlands gay? all blasted?All wasted?If you quote two or more lines of dialogue from a dramatic work, set the quotation apart ina block quotation formatted as you would prose. Present each speaker's name so that it isdistinct from the dialogue, such as in all capital letters or in a different font. Begin eachspeech on a new line, and indent runovers further than the rest of the quotation.Then the play takes an unusual turn: