Importance of Contextual Lead-Ins in Incorporating Quotes

When incorporating quotes in your SAR or body paragraph, it's crucial to provide a contextual lead-in. This means introducing the quote with a summary derived from the text itself. Examples from Bradbury's work illustrate how contextual lead-ins enhance the understanding and relevance of quoted passages within the text.

• Writing
• Quotes
• Contextual Lead-Ins
• Usage
• Examples

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1. Text Lead-Ins When you have a quote in your SAR or Body Paragraph, make sure you give it a contextual lead in.

2. Text Lead-Ins A Contextual Lead In means that you introduce the quote with information summarized from the text.

3. A 2 example For example, in the text the author writes, A little error here would multiply in sixty million years, all out of proportion (Bradbury 39).

4. A 3 Example When Travis is telling the hunters about the rules, he says, crushing certain plants could add up infinitesimally (Bradbury 39).

5. A 4 Example At the end of the story, Eckels steps on a butterfly and later sees it embedded in the mud, glistening green and gold and black, very beautiful and very dead (Bradbury 47).

6. Another 4 example Killing the butterfly was a small thing that could upset balances and knock down a line of small dominoes and then big dominoes (Bradbury 47).