COM 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Block Quotation, Word Grammar

• School: Syracuse University
• Department: Communications
• Course: COM 101
• Professor: R.Terry

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Question marks: quotation marks with direct quotations and paraphrase, quotation marks are used to indicate writers are quoting someone word for word (direct quote, a paraphrase means writers are changing somebody"s words while keeping the original ideas intact. A true paraphrase does not utilize quotation marks: quotation marks with other punctuation, common mistake: misplacing periods and commas when they appear with quotation marks, a period or comma should always be placed inside the quotation marks. Quotation marks with direct quotations and paraphrase: quotation marks have these assorted functions: For some strange reason, people seem to be increasingly using quotation marks needlessly. In particular, some people mistakenly use them to emphasize a word or two, which is not a function of quotation marks. Use boldfacing, underlining, or italics not quotation marks if you want to emphasize certain words: the term direct quotation means only one thing: using somebody else"s language, word for word.