Skilled quoting is mostly selection — a few words carried across, the rest deliberately left behind. Click words below to build a quotation out of Okonkwo’s passage. Gaps become ellipses automatically, the meter tells you when you have crossed into block-quote territory, and the honesty check applies the one rule worth memorizing: if the cut makes the claim stronger, put the words back.
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Nothing selected yet. Try clicking just uncompensated attentional cost in the last sentence — three words are often the whole quotation you needed.