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Puncbeforequotes.docxExamples of commas before quotes:
Graff (3): The college curriculum says to students, “Come and get it, but you’re on your own as to what to make of it all.”
Sperber (14): In the restrooms, graffiti often proclaims, “Bachelors degrees from this school: take one.”
Examples of colon before quote:
Sperber (xii): A junior at this university put it more succinctly: “This place is a four-year party – one long tailgater – with an $18,000 annual cover charge.”
Sperber (71): Kerr foresaw an inevitable side effect: “A superior research faculty results in an inferior concern with undergraduate teaching.”
Graff (11): This is the “Law of Academic Prestige” that has been formulated by Deirdre McCloskey: “The more useful a field, the lower its prestige.”
Example of quote with “that”:
Graff (10): I agree with Steven Pinker that “having to explain an idea in plain English…is an excellent screen for incoherent or contradictory ideas that somehow have entrenched themselves in a field.”
Sperber (71): Kerr noted that “the mark of a university ‘on the make’ is a mad scramble for football stars and professorial luminaries. The former do little studying and the latter little teaching, and so they form a neat combination of muscle and intellect.”
Examples of fragments being quoted:
Sperber (xii): An Admissions Office brochure noted that students receive a wonderful lifestyle experience here.
Sperber (75): Faculty referred to their teaching loads as if pedagogy were a burden.
Graff (2): Not all “academics” are “intellectuals.”
Graff (3): As John Gardner has rightly observed, American colleges “operate under the assumption that students know how to do it – or if they don’t they’ll flunk out and it’s their problem.”
Graff (7): Being “in the dark” enables you to notice things that get overlooked by those supposedly in the know.
Graff (10): Academia has its own unspoken policy of “don’t ask, don’t tell.”
