Functions
When do writers use quotation marks?
To enclose direct quotations of another person’s spoken or written words.
In dialogue, begin a _________ to mark a change in speaker.
new paraghraph
What do you not use around indirect quotations?
Quotation marks
Do periods and commas go inside or outside of the quotation marks?
Inside
Should titles of short works have quotation marks around them?
Yes
If a single speaker utters more then ____ paragraphs, introduce each paragraph with a quotation mark, but do not use a ____________ until the end of the speech.
one, closing quotation mark
An indirect quotation reports someone’s ideas without using that person’s____________?
Exact words
Baby Gronk asked Livvy Dunne "Will you be the skibidi to my toilet".
Is the punctuation grammatically correct?
No
Period should be inside the quotation marks
Yabadabadoing's story The Rizzler tells story about baby gronk and livvy dunne.
Where do the quotation marks go?
Around "the rizzler"
Long quotations of prose or poetry are generally set off from the text by ___________.
Indenting
In academic writing an indirect quotation is called what?
A paraphrase or summary
Where should the exclamation point and question mark go if they apply to the whole sentence?
Outside the quotation marks
Use what to indicate a quotation inside of a quotation?
Single quotation marks
Quotation marks are not used because the indented format tells readers that the quotation is taken _______________ from the source.
Word for word.
If using indirect quotations without giving credit is called what?
Plagiarizing
When should a colon be used in a quotation?
If a quotation is formally introduced with a full independent clause
Instead of italicizing a word used as a word, what else could you do?
Use quotation marks
MLA, APA, and CMS have specific guidelines for what constitutes a long quotation and how it should be indented. What are the three ways?
MLA, When quoting more than four typed lines of prose or more than three lines of poetry, set off the quotation by indenting it one-half inch from the left margin and use the normal right margin.
APA, When quoting forty or more words from a source, set off the quotation by indenting it one-half inch from the left margin. Use the normal right margin and do not single-space the quotation.
CMS, normally, set off a quotation of more than four or five typed lines of text. To set off a quotation, indent it one-half inch from the left margin and use the normal right margin. Double-space the indented quotation.
What are the 3 ways to avoid plagiarizing while using quotations?
Summarizing, paraphrasing, using exact quotations
If two successive quoted sentences from the same source are interrupted by explanatory words, use a ______ before the explanatory words and a _____ after them.
comma, period