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: What English version of the bible should I quote from? Say I want to quote from the bible in something I'm writing (think the famous passage in Pulp Fiction). What bible version should I quote
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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 it appropriate to use real-life quotes in fantasy/sci-fi novels set in alternate worlds? Situation: You have an imaginary world, fantasy, sci-fi, whatever, and you are at a point where, as
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: Attributing quotes to fictional characters Let's say, for example, that I want to post my favourite quote from Babylon 5 somewhere: "I'm not saying what I'm saying. I'm not saying what I'm
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: Attributing a real quote to a fictional character I've looked at a few fictional character quote questions on here but none seem to hit onto my question: Can I attribute a real quote to a
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: Quoting text from a country with different internationalization I'm writing my doctoral dissertation here in the United States, and quoting some text from an English-language paper written in Germany.
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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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: 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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: 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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: Why end sentences with commas instead of periods when the sentence is in a quote? I've seen styles where writers end sentences with commas if it is inside double quotes and styles where writers
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: Quoting lyrics in a book of film criticism I'm writing a book of film criticism, in which I refer to lyrics from the soundtrack as a way to empathise the narrative. Am I required to obtain
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: How to indicate that a single letter was removed from a quotation Suppose a source text says: 1 Timothy 2:4 says that God desires all people to be saved. Now suppose I want to quote
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: Is it appropriate to credit someone with a quote if I am not absolutely sure they are the source? I read a quote a long time ago, but did not know the origin. I want to use it in a paper
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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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: 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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: How do I credit a quote if I am uncertain of the source? If I am writing a book and want to use a quote, but I either don't remember who said it or I am uncertain, how should I credit
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: What would be a good way of electronically organizing my aphorisms? I have been writing aphorisms for the most part of my life. Up to now, I noted them down in (real-life, paper) notebooks.
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: Academic writing: direct quote I have a simple question regarding scientific quotes. Which of the following alternatives is correct? Alt. 1: The literature has made substantial strides towards
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: Changing Capitalization in a Quote - MLA I'm writing an essay (MLA style) for class and I am quoting a whole sentence within my sentence. For example: They published a “manifesto†proclaiming
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: Should I close this quoted paragraph? I have a paragraph of dialog which technically continues into the next paragraph, but I want to interject a "she continued" almost immediately into the second
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: What did Norman Mailer mean? I read this quote recently, attributed to Norman Mailer, that has had my brain itching: Alimony is the curse of the writing class. What did he mean by it?
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: Is it okay to quote a saying, even if i don't know who said it? If it is okay to quote then how should i quote it. For example, "Many wealthy people are little more than janitors
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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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: 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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: 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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: 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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: 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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: 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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: "Quote" within a quote MLA So I have a quote that has double quotation marks inside it. Would I leave those in? Or replace them with single quotes? In Carolyn Gregoire’s article “What
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: How should a narrative parenthetical remark be placed in reference to a dialog quotation? I’m wondering how to place a narrative parenthetical remark in dialog. I’m proofreading a book with
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: How can I include my own words within the quotation? How can I include my own words (of an extra information) within the quotation? Can I do it in the following way, with the words in bracket
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: Do I need to cite quotes when conversing casually with friends? If I'm speaking casually with a friend and quote something I heard, do I need to cite the source of that quote/saying? Ex. "After
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: First page of the Diary - Quote am gifting some one a diary I want to write something meaningful in the first page of it. All I could come up with is... In the most ammaaazing journey that
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: Correct punctuation for he said, she said It was recently suggested to me that when attributing dialogue after a quote it should always end comma close quote lowercase, as in: "That's what,"
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: Spacing for quotes within quotes Character A is quoting characters B and C. Since character A is talking their words are enclosed in double quotes. Their rendition of characters B and C's
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