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“Quotations”
by, Sharon K. Yntema
September 6, 2016

Do we need quotation marks? Who needs punctuation? Times are a-changing. One of the signs punctuation marks are in flux is the air quotations people make with their fingers when using words ironically. In print, we’ve seen the rise of single quotation marks around sarcastic words or phrases, even though the standard rule for single quotation marks are for use inside double quotation marks to… [Read More]

Filed Under: APA Style, David Crystal, Dialogue, double quotation marks, guillemet, How to Start a Fire and Why, Jesse Ball, Making a Point, Manual of Style, MLA, Punctuation, single quotation marks, The Chicago Manual of Style
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Using Citation Machine to Credit Information for your Non-Fiction Manuscript
by, Claire Webber
May 28, 2013
Using Citation Machine for Citations in Non-Fiction Manuscripts - Project Gutenberg Image

You may think you left citations behind when you finished writing college papers, but if you are writing non-fiction these little footprints of authority are more important than ever. In school, your references to others’ work is a matter of intellectual honesty and under Fair Use of the Copyright Act, attribution of the source is sufficient. When you are writing a book that will be… [Read More]

Filed Under: APA, Bibliography, CitationMachine.net, citations, citing sources in non-fiction, endnotes, footnotes, MLA, references, Turabian, University of Chicago Manual of Style
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