Why use quotations?

Last updated: 15/11/2023
Contributor: HelenM
Why use quotations card sort
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Key stage
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Essay writing: Using quotations
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Worksheet

This handy kinaesthetic card sort activity can help students to explore why we use quotations in our writing. Perfect as a starter or to recap the fundamentals of essay writing for English students.

An extract from the resource: 

Read through the following ideas about using quotations.  Sort them into two columns: important and not important. It may help you to think about how you have seen quotations used and why you might use them in your writing.

Good writers analyse ideas – quotations can help a writer to do this.

Because you have to in essays.

To show that you can.

To explain your point of view.

To back up or support ideas.

If you don’t have your own ideas.

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