On Using Quotes

My safe-assign/Turnit In requirement is always 5% match.

This increases as you increase the amount of direct quote or if the quality of paraphrase is lousy.

Best way to deal with direct quotes is to strategize and budget.

Direct quotes have uses.

1. It's good to start or end an article with.

2. It's good in emphasizing something in your discussion.

Sometimes you encounter one or more quotes that are so good.  Pick among them, which should you retain, which should you paraphrase?

Best to have a limit of max of 3 lines of direct quotes in one paper.  Less if the paper is short.  More if it's a thesis with a higher number of pages,  but you will be using IMRAD nowadays, hence, better to still limit them.

The only place in a paper where direct quotes can be plenty is in Chapter 4 of a Thesis, or in Results and Discussion of an IMRAD.  And this is only IF your direct quotes come from interviews, making the work original.