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: According to CMOS, can I change plural words in a quotation to singular, and vice versa? Consider, for example, that the following sentence is from an external source and that I desire to quote
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: The author allows me to use their (excellent) idea, but I need to paraphrase it. I can't find a good paraphrase. What should I do? I meet an excellent idea and really want to use it. The
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: What do you call a quote that is a modification/derivation of another quote? There is the quote, "The truth will set you free". And then there are the quotes, "The truth will set
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: What can be the guideline for modifying quote? God does not play roulette — Albert Einstein There are cases that I feel like a change in the original quote would make it more rhythm, poetic,
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: Is it appropriate for one to use already existing content? Will it be considered copyright infringement if one would use already existing content, for example, a song? Can you be sued for copyright
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: Who had 3 rules for submissions: 1. You must have a point. 2. You must make your point. 3. You must make it in pristine, first-rate english? I think it was a famous magazine editor. I must
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: Citing quotes/footnotes In my memoir, I use several quotations. In the text I note who said them: e.g., "As author and diplomat Washington Irving, having mourned a fiancée and a brother,
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: Punctuation of a quote inside parentheses - MLA I was wondering how to properly format a quote inside parentheses in MLA. So far I have mostly used the third option, although the double parentheses
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: How do I avoid using punctuation inside quotation marks in technical writing? As a computer programmer, I comment my code. For example: The following lines are dependent on "source 1" and
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: Writing mumbled speech I've got a character that mumbles, and I'd like good advice on how to write his dialogue. He isn't a POV character, and I won't give him too much dialogue that would
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: How do you quote a quote? There's this sentence from Marie Kondo’s book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing that I want to use as a title
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: How do you properly quote a quote as a title? There's this sentence from Marie Kondo’s book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing that I want
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: Is this the correct way to use quotes and commas when there are two quotes within one quote? “He said, ‘spend a week more on the west wall and do your job diligently,’ and that at
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: How do you transcribe a person's tone (i.e. someone whose speech is rude and/or attacking)? I've been having great difficulty with transcribing an individuals "tone" in my meeting notes!! For
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: Quoting italicized text: keep formatting? I'm quoting a sentence from Carl von Clausewitz' On War. He has part of the sentence italicized though: Obstinacy is a fault of temperament. Is
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: Citing sources "Adversity introduces a man to himself" This famous quote from Albert Einstein, after research, doesn't have any origins (No year, no location/event, etc.). How would you go about
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: Can I put 2 quotes in one sentence in my essay? In my essay I want to use 2 quotes that are both on the same page but are 4 lines apart. I didn't think I should use ellipsis b/c the
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: Is it better to go verb-then-name or name-then-verb when writing sentences with quotes? Which of these is correct? The first? The second? Both? verb then name: "She's late again," said Jason.
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: Using quote as title - disadvantages There are multiple examples of works of fiction using for their title a quote from another famous work: Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, Ernest Hemingway's
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: How can I Include a verbatim passage in my fiction without plagiarizing it? In my novel, the MC goes to a resort and at the resort, they offer two types of Buddhist meditations. Those meditations
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: How should I quote American English speakers in a British English essay? I am working on a formal essay where I have to quote a few American English speakers, but my essay is written in British
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: Starting from future smoothing your way to present Ok, so the hook for my novel is a quote from the future that my protagonist will eventually say. But I need a way for my novel to go back
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: How do you quote a comic book? How do you quote a comic book strip? I have to state 75 words and I'm not sure if I should re-write the quote as a novel or not.
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: MLA citation within citation Author 1 has written: Author 2 locates the motivation for remakes 'well beyond the profit principle', in complex, highly personal reasons, based on various
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: In a professional email you need to quote something from a business document. How do you write this? This is in a professional email. I'm quoting from a business document that was sent to
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: What are the rules for beginning a block quotation halfway into a quoted sentence? I'm interested in the rules set by the Chicago Manual of Style. If I take a block quotation that starts with
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: When does a phrase change from "quote" to "expression coined by"? "The best-laid plans of mice and men oft go awry" comes from Robert Burns's To a Mouse. It is a commonly used expression,
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: MLA: Indirect Citation without quote I have a text which I would like to quote. However, the particular section of the text in which I am interested cites but does not directly quote another
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: Quote with attribution, but without saying that I'm quoting I want to give credit to a source without stating their full title again, because the full title is a mouthful. Earlier in the paper,
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: As a new poet, where can I find help from a professional to judge my work? I often write short poems and quotes here: https://www.mirakee.com/atd, but I really want to hear from someone professional
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: How should tv broadcast dialogue be formatted in a story? Supposing a character or characters are watching a show on TV (news maybe) how should that be formatted in the text? I've found some
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: Approach to pop culture quotes in fiction writing I am contemplating writing a fictional character [nerd] who speaks in a pop culture references. I appreciate this question somewhat overlaps Referencing
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: Quote at the beginning of a chapter, is it advisable for fiction novels? I have read a few non-fiction works (mostly scientific) where there is a quote at the beginning of each new chapter.
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: Is this attribution clear and sufficient? My characters are well read and some like to recite poetry. My MC is particularly fond of Paradise Lost and is known to quote a few lines here and
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: Citing and typos I am holding a book (novel) which I wish to cite, and I believe it has a typo. I do not know whether the typo was a spelling mistake in the original manuscript, or introduced
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: How to include a list of terms (glossary) in a scholarly paper (IEEE format)? I am currently writing my Bachelor's thesis and I have produced a list of terms that I plan on including in the
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: Properly punctuate a quote I am trying to learn to properly punctuate a quote, for example If I have I said "Let us go" and we left. Do I put a comma before or after the quote?
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: Using a pronoun outside of quotations to refer to a person mentioned in quotations who hasn't been introduced yet Would the line: "Peter!" cried his father. make grammatical sense? It seems
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: Can I quote an infamous line from a satire written in the 18th century in my novel? I marked it with a footnote containing the writer's name, the work's title and copied the "Publisher" section
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: Term for when you split a quote to say 'said so and so' in Journalism and Reporting? I'll make this short. I'm writing a personal profile for a news story and I'm looking for alternatives
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