Punctuating quotations Insert commas or semicolons in the following sentences to correct punctuation with quotations. Mark the number preceding any sentence whose punctuation is already correct. Example: The shoplifter declared “I didn’t steal anything.” The shoplifter declared, “I didn’t steal anything.” 1. The writer and writing teacher Peter Elbow proposes an “open-ended writing process” that “can change you, not just your words.” 2. “I think of the open-ended writing process as a voyage in two stages” Elbow says. 3. “The sea voyage is a process of divergence, branching, proliferation, and confusion” Elbow continues “the coming to land is a process of convergence, pruning, centralizing, and clarifying.” 4. “Keep up one session of writing long enough to get loosened up and tired” advises Elbow “long enough in fact to make a bit of a voyage.” 5. “In coming to new land” Elbow says “you develop a new conception of what you are writing about.”