The Art of Quoting

The first quote that I chose is from an essay I wrote at the beginning of my senior year about whether or not college athletes should be paid. This was an argumentative essay and I tool the stance of paying collegiate athletes.

                  The amount of money that they are getting paid each year just to televise just the games of an individual conference reach unbelievable amounts of money.  “The Big Ten Conference has three separate T.V. contracts totaling up to $236.1 million per year to the conference, and $24.1 million of that is just for the football conference championship” (Bhandari).

I have introduced this quote with a sentence explain what the quote will say, but I have failed to lead into the quote in the sentence that the quote is in.  As well as failing to properly introduce my quote into the text, I also fail to explain the quote and what it means to me.  I would revise this to use an into into the quote such as adding an intro into the author which I am quoting and adding a “according to X” before the quote. I would also rewrite the the quote in my own words and what the significance is in my argument.

My next quote comes from the same argumentative piece as the first quote.

Being a division one college athlete is like “having a full time job and more”, says Mitchell Meyer, a college football player.  He says told me that you have to be fully committed to your studies and sport.  Athletes spend a good 7 hours a day in the facility during the season working out, meeting with coaches or watching film.

This quote shows almost no introduction into the quote or to the person I was quoting. I feel that I did do much better job at describing what that quote meant to me. Explaining what the quote meant to me was accomplished, yet I still left out why this is important to my argument.  I would revise this so I have a sentence or two to introduce who in am quoting and what the purpose of the quote will be.