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These are some sentence starters:

Introducing Quotations

• X states, “___________”.
• According to X, “___________.”
• X himself writes, “___________.”
• In her book, ___________, X maintains that “___________.”
• Writing in the journal Commentary, X complains that “___________.”
• In X’s view,” ___________.”
• X agrees when she writes, “___________.”
• X disagrees when he writes, “___________.”
• X complicates matters further when he writes, “___________.”
  
  Explaining Quotations
• Essentially, X believes ___________ since...
• In other words, X deems ___________ because...
• In making this comment, x argues that ___________since…
• X is insisting that ___________ because...
• X’s point is that ___________ since…

Agreeing and Disagreeing Simultaneously

• Although I agree with X to a certain point, I cannot accept his overall conclusion that
  ___________ because...
  
• Although I disagree with much that X says, I fully endorse his final conclusion that ___________ since...
  
• X is right that ___________, but she seems on more dubious ground when she claims
  that ___________.
  
• While X is probably wrong when she claims that ___________, she is right that
  ___________.
  
• I’m of two minds about X’s claim that ___________. On the one hand, I agree that
  ___________. On the other hand, I’m not sure if ___________.