You may use the quote to support your opinion about the flowers, or you can challenge something in one of the articles and use it as opposition to your claim.

Paper #4 requires you to incorporate at least include two scholarly, written sources in your paper. In order to practice locating and integrating quotes from articles, write a 200+ word paragraph about the chrysanthemums and what you think they symbolize in Steinbeck’s short story. Incorporate one quote from one of the two attached articles pulled from the library databases. You may use the quote to support your opinion about the flowers, or you can challenge something in one of the articles and use it as opposition to your claim. Make sure you have introduced the quote—you cannot simply “plop” it into your paragraph—and check the MLA formatting. If you refer to the author by name within the sentence, you do not need to include the author’s last name in the parenthetical citation, but you should include the page number. All punctuation (commas, periods, etc.) should fall inside any quotation marks.