The quotes from these articles may be about the author of the work, its theme, the collection the work comes from, or the issues it asks you to think about. For example, Original Essay: “Kate Chopin is the author of the short story ‘The Story of an Hour.” Research Paper: “Kate Chopin, whom John Doe calls “a proto-feminist” (Doe, 2009), is the author of the short story ‘The Story of an Hour.”
Even if a statement in the article says the opposite of your argument, you can still use it by saying something like: “Unlike John Doe who believes ‘X’ (Doe 2012), what is really going on is …” [continue with your original argument]