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: Who pays for lyrics or quotes? Occasionally, novels will include song lyrics in the story, or start out chapters with songs or quotes. In many cases, these lyrics or quotes are from copyrighted
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: How to emphasize a quote is written, not spoken? In a similar question on EL&U, I asked about suggestions for indicating that a quote is written instead of spoken. Robusto's answer suggested
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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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: 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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: Punctuation-Quote or Quote-Punctuation? I'm writing a document using the Chicago Manual of Style. I don't have access to the full guide, only to what's provided on-line. Now I wondering as to
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: Is it ok to begin an essay/report with a quote? Possible Duplicate: Is it ok to begin an essay/report with a quote? I am writing an essay on project management within IT and
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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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: Advice on choice of epigram I am writing a paper on Internet censorship in China and was considering starting it with a thought provoking epigram to draw the reader. The title of the paper
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: APA Formatting - Changing Adjectives in a quote Should I change "our" to "their" in this quote? If so, how? As stated in their 2011 Annual Report, Siemens’ identity and corporate culture is
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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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: Quoting characters' writing If a character writes something inside of a diary, how do I quote it? Do I quote just like anything else? Specifically I am talking about page 145 of the Washington
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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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: How to quote something twice If I use a quote and then want to explicitly refer to a small part of that quote again, within the same paragraph, do I need to use quotation marks again? Can
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: When quoting a person's informal speech, how much liberty do you have to make changes to what they say? Even during a formal interview for a news article, people speak informally. They say
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: How do I quote a song from Youtube? MLA format I need to quote a song from Youtube. I don't own the song and the artist who sings it hasn't put an official version on YT. How should I
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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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: When writing a formal report should citations be used in the glossary? First of all hi everyone :-) In a formal report should the words and phrases defined in the glossary contain citations?
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: Should this introductory quotation be translated, untranslated, or dropped? When I first wrote "Gawain's Guilt-Girdle" (14 lines of verse) I introduced it with a short (modernized/translated) quotation
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: How similar is too similar? I have used the phrase: "There are not enough words in the tongues of men, elves, dwarves, trolls, goblins, or beasts to describe how disgusting..." in a couple
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: Attributing Quote to Fictional Characters (Who are based on real people) I'm making a poster of one of my favorite quotes from Almost Famous: You'll meet them all again on their long journey
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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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: How do I cite a standalone quote at the beginning of a doctoral thesis? The book which the quote is from is also being cited throughout the thesis, so naturally it is included in the bibliography.
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: Quote a sentence with references I'm currently writing my bachelor's thesis and I'm using the IEEE citations. Now lets say I want to directly quote the following sentence: The barn was on
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: Many quotations of a black British novel which used creolized English language. When to use sic? I finished writing my essay about Sam Selvons "The Lonely Londoners" which is written in creolized
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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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: How to cite a film quote using MLA in text citations I am working on an essay, and one of my sources is a film. (The Matrix) What would the in-text citation for the film look like, and
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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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: How to show that a character is quoting from a book? I am editing a text in which the characters use quotations from the Bible quite often. Example: Jeremiah turned toward him, "Therefore,
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: Citing someone's work, copying and pasting fragment. Is that OK? I found the original manuscript of a very celebrated English botanist on the internet (in pdf format of course) Here it is: http://sciweb.nybg.org/science2/pdfs
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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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: What are the poetry/quotes at the start of a chapter/book called? For instance, "A Rasin in the Sun" starts with the poem "Harlem." I've noticed many (mostly contemporary) novels will start chapters
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: Can I publish excerpts from a letter without permission? It will be my pleasure to cite the author of the letter. I'm looking at perhaps ten sentences out of a four page letter. I have the
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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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: 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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: 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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: How to mark own translation? In a thesis written using the Author's "We", how do you mark a translation of a quotation as your own? "My translation" violates the pluralis auctoris. "Our translation"
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: What is the original source of the Lawrence Durrell quote starting with "My spirit turns more and more [...]"? This may be more appropriately called a "Literature" or "History" question but as
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: Quoting a Nursery Rhyme I'd like to quote a nursery rhyme at the beginning of my chapter, but I'm not sure the proper formatting for this. I've seen a lot of authors quote passages from books,
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: How does one indicate uncertainty in a quote? When quoting the spoken word, and if one particular word is difficult to distinguish, how does one properly indicate the uncertainty if that particular
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: Having a character quote an entire stanza of a poem I am working on a long form fiction item. In this one of the characters will quote the first stanza from a poem. Normally with speech,
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