Which Versions are Correctly Cited?

Original:

There is little evidence to suggest that people are refusing to learn English. According to a 1985 study by the Rand Corporation, 95 percent of the children of Mexican immigrants can speak English. By the second generation more than half can speak only English. There is after all a huge inducement in terms of convenience, culture, and income to learn the prevailing language. (Bill Bryson, The Mother Tongue: English & How It Got That Way. New York: Avon, 1990, page 241)

Version 1:

It is clear that immigrants want to learn English. As Bill Bryson notes in his book The Mother Tongue, there is after all a huge inducement in terms of convenience, culture, and income to learn the prevailing language (241).

Version 2: It is clear that immigrants want to learn English. There is a large advantage to learning the dominant language due to jobs, ease of living, and adapting to society (Bryson 241).

Version 3: It is clear that immigrants want to learn English. As Bill Bryson notes, “There is after all a huge inducement in terms of convenience, culture, and income to learn the prevailing language” (241).

Version 4: It is clear that immigrants want to learn English. After all, there is a huge inducement in terms of convenience, culture, and income to learn the prevailing language.

Version 5: It is clear that immigrants want to learn English. As Bill Bryson notes, people who come to another country will have an easier time finding work and getting along with others if they learn to speak the same language as everyone else is speaking (241).

Version 6: It is clear that immigrants want to learn English. People who come to another country will have an easier time finding work and getting along with others if they learn to speak the same language as everyone else is speaking.