Here's your basic structure. Of course, when you are more adept with writing these, you will want to break these rules. Breaking them is how you build voice, an important step for all adept writers:

Paragraph Writing!

1. Start with your reason sentence. Remember, reasons are general (do NOT refer to a source or quote) and explains why your claim is true (without saying, “One reason why this is true is because…”

2. Introduce your quote with context, aka attribution. That is your author, source title, brief description of what it is and why it’s important, as well as hinting at what you think of it. That leads into your…

3. Direct quote.

4. Subsequently, your commentary explains not only what that quote means, but refers to other ideas in the source not quoted. You explain your thinking, and while doing so, introduce and make connections to your NEXT source, providing context for that source.

5. Direct quote, different source.

6. Commentary, wherein you get to wax poetic and philosophical, explaining everything you know without saying, “I think…” or “I believe…” Commentary simply is what you think, and why you think it. You simply don’t say, “I think…”