Parker gathered in Lexington, Massachusetts, a town near Boston. A militia is a force of armed civilians pledged to defend their community. About one-third of the Lexington militia were Minutemen, trained to âact at a minuteâs warning.â They had heard that the British were coming. Parkerâs troops had never faced soldiers. Soon they
Quotation marks would only have to be used on thoughts if the<br />thoughts were someone else's. If the thoughts came from a book, computer source, or some other source, then quotation marks should be used. However, the writer of the essay does not have to quote his or her <i>own</i> thoughts.
When you use a quote of under 40. words put it in quotation marks. Ridener and Fritzer (2004) state âsomething that relates to your. essayâ (p. 12). If you paraphrase (put in your own words) something that an author said indicate. that at the end of the paraphrase.