How do you mention a quote in an essay?

Whenever you use a direct quote, acknowledge the quote by placing it inside quotation marks and naming the author. Whenever you paraphrase content ideas, written text, or thoughts place the credit within your research paper where your paraphrase occurs and at the end of the paper in the bibliography.

How do you write direct and indirect quotes?

A direct quote (or direct quotation) is the exact words taken from an original source and used in a second piece of writing. An indirect quote (or indirect quotation) is the idea or fact taken from an outside source and used in a second piece of writing.

What are quoted words?

Quotation marks around single words can occasionally be used for emphasis, but only when quoting a word or term someone else used. Usually, this implies that the author doesn’t agree with the use of the term. When quotation marks are put around a word in this way, they are called scare quotes.