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Part Two: Text Wrestling 197 1. front-load (1-2 sentences) + 2. quote, paraphrase, or summarize + 3. (cite) + 4. explain, elaborate, analyze (2-3 sentences) Set your reader up for the quote using a signpost (also known as a signal phrase; see Chapter Nine). Don’t drop quotes in abruptly: by front-loading, you can guide your reader’s interpretation. Use whichever technique is relevant to your rhetorical purpose at that exact point. Use an in-text citation appropriate to your discipline. It doesn’t matter if you quote, paraphrase, or summarize—all three require a citation. Perhaps most importantly, you need to make the value of this evidence clear to the reader. What does it mean? How does it further your thesis? What might this look like in practice? The recurring imagery of snow creates a tone of frostiness and demonstrates the passage of time. (1) Snow brings to mind connotations of wintery cold, quiet, and death (2) as a “sky of utter clarity and simplicity” lingers over his uncle’s home and “it [begins] once more to snow” ( (3) Capossere 104). (4) Throughout his essay, Capossere returns frequently to weather imagery, but snow especially, to play on associations the reader has. In this line, snow sets the tone by wrapping itself in with “clarity,” a state of mind. Even though the narrator still seems ambivalent about his uncle, this clarity suggests that he is reflecting with a new and somber understanding. 1. Front-load Snow brings to mind connotations of wintery cold, quiet, and death 2. Quote as a “sky of utter clarity and simplicity” lingers over his uncle’s home and “it [begins] once more to snow” 3. Cite (Capossere 104). 4. Explain/elaborate/analysis Throughout his essay, Capossere returns frequently to weather imagery, but snow especially, to play on associations the reader has. In this line, snow sets the tone by wrapping itself in with “clarity,” a state of mind. Even though the narrator still seems