Mariel drank her milk before going to bed.
It let's everyone else feel that they've been heard and that they've contributed.
it lets you hold back your own thoughts until you've heard everyone else's, allowing you to form a more complete, better-formulated opinion.
Sidebars,glossary's and photographs and bolded words can help you out
The correctly formatted in-text citation would be: Odysseus's men "bent steady to the oars" (Homer 79).