1. Using a lot of direct quotations makes a research paper or essay even better.

2. In writing direct quotations, periods and commas go outside the quotation marks.

3. It is correct to format a longer quotation as a block quotation if it is more than four lines long.

4. When you embed a quotation in a sentence, there should be an abrupt break indicating where the quotation begins and ends.

5. There should be a greater number of indirect than direct quotations in a research paper.

6. The most overused verbs in quotations are “said” and “says.”

7. Signal phrases can only be phrases.

8. A quotation is embedded properly if someone listening to the sentence cannot tell where the writer’s words end and the quotation begins.

9. Indirect quotations should be enclosed in quotation marks.

10. If you use someone else’s ideas or revise, rearrange, or paraphrase their words, you still must cite the source instead of implying that the words or ideas are your own.