Each month of the 2007 – 2008 academic year, the University Writing Center will highlight errors from The St. Martins’ Handbook in order to help all members of the university community become more familiar with these errors and learn to avoid them in their writing.

April's featured error is the eighteenth most common error that U.S. college students make in their writing—poorly integrated quotation. Please click on the name of this error to see a discussion of what it is and how to avoid it.