30+ How To Introduce A Block Quote Mla. Introduce the block quote with a colon (unless the context of your quote requires different punctuation) and start it on a new line. This video explains when it's appropriate to use block quotes and how to format them in mla 7 style. Introduce the quote with a colon and set it on a new line. How to handle short and long quotations, shorten quotations, and when to paraphrase instead of quoting. Block quotes in mla style. An inch from the rest of the text, so it looks like a block of text. The block quote is used for direct quotations that are longer than four lines of prose, or longer than three lines of poetry. How to format a block quote? Under indent change left to.5. Indent the whole quote 0.5 inches from the left margin.
