For these directions to make sense, first Sign in to Diigo and go to your Library. You need to have a bookmark that links to the original source, with one paragraph above quotation and two paragraphs below it. (See Bookmarking using Google Reader)
Follow these steps to copy the quotation and your comments from a bookmark into a discussion post.
- These directions assume that you are using Google Docs to compose your discussion post.
- For a more detailed description of how to integrate a quotation with a citation into your text, see Citing a source in an essay without footnotes.
- Find the Share link under the title of the bookmark that you want to use.
- Generate report...
- Select All and Copy
Use Ctrl+A for Select All, Ctrl-C for Copy, Ctrl-X for Cut and Ctrl-V for Paste.
- Open your Google Document where you are creating your discussion post, and paste your text.
- Find the part of your text that is quoted from the source. Highlight that section of text and in Google Docs, then click Format / Block quote.
- Now build a sandwich, with an introduction before "the meat" of your quote and a paraphrase and further thoughts under it.
- You may need to go back to your bookmark to get the URL for the original article or the source. You need the entire title of the source and the URL. You will probably have to copy these separately. First copy the title, and paste it under the quotation in Google Docs.
- Then go back again to the bookmark and right-click on the URL. Copy the source or the link information.
- Once you return to your Google Document, highlight the title of the source that you have pasted there, click on the title button, and paste the URL in the proper box that appears.
- Spell-check. Read it aloud to yourself. Make sure you haven't made any errors. Save.
- 565 reads
- by pallison
