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6+1 Trait Alert: If a writer tries to make his/her writing really look like a quotation dictionary page, then this writing exercise encourages voice through audience awareness, which is an important trait that all writers should practice. Click here to learn more about the writing traits and WritingFix.

Hey Writers and Teachers: Challenge yourself by devoting a page in your journal or your writer's notebook to celebrate quotations that have personal meaning to you.

First, gather 5 or 10 quotations from famous people that you admire and live by. Copy them neatly into your notebook but write them just as you'd see them formatted in a real quotation dictionary. To glance through an on-line quotation dictionary and see how quotations can be formatted, click here. It might be best to get your hands on a hard-bound quotation book to study the formatting.

Then, think of 5 or 10 expressions used by your family (or friends) that are unique to your life. Every family or circle of friends has these types of quotes or expressions. Capture them on your quotation page, and write them just as you'd see them if they were in a real quote dictionary.

Below, find two quotations from our quotations page, followed by a personal quotation by a family member.

"Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little."

--Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Seventh Selection, New York (1990).

"Geological time is not money."

--Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910), U.S. author. “More Maxims of Mark,” p. 942, Mark Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, & Essays, 1891-1910, Library of America (1992).

"Oh, for corn's sake."

--Grandmother Irma Harrison (b. 1914- ), skilled domino and pinochle player, said when a lousy hand only gets lousier.

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