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Rasmusen p1vaim at 01:00, 13 April 2021

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Rasmusen p1vaim at 15:43, 18 February 2021

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Rasmusen p1vaim at 17:01, 23 January 2021

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Rasmusen p1vaim: Created page with "We must be accurate but not pedantic in quotations. Always, your thought should be on what the reader needs to accurately and smoothly comprehend what the original was saying..."

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Created page with "We must be accurate but not pedantic in quotations. Always, your thought should be on what the reader needs to accurately and smoothly comprehend what the original was saying..."

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We must be accurate but not pedantic in quotations. Always, your thought should be on what the reader needs to accurately and smoothly comprehend what the original was saying.

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'''Formatting.''' This can be changed, usually. Consider, from Wikipedia's [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kairos Kairos]:

{{quotation|"Kairos" (used 86 times in the New Testament)[19] refers to an opportune time, a "moment" or a "season" such as "harvest time," [20] whereas "chronos" (used 54 times)[21] refers to a specific amount of time, such as a day or an hour (e.g. Acts 13:18 and 27:9).}}

This is better done as

{{quotation|"Kairos" (used 86 times in the New Testament) refers to an opportune time, a "moment" or a "season" such as "harvest time," whereas "chronos" (used 54 times) refers to a specific amount of time, such as a day or an hour (e.g. Acts 13:18 and 27:9).}}

Although proper in legal briefs, where exactitude is more important than clarity, in other contexts it is pedantic to write:

{{quotation|"Kairos" (used 86 times in the New Testament) refers to an opportune time, a "moment" or a "season" such as "harvest time," whereas "chronos" (used 54 times) refers to a specific amount of time, such as a day or an hour (e.g. Acts 13:18 and 27:9). [citations omitted]}}

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'''Omitted words.''' If you omit the first words of a sentence, the pedantic style, one proper for legal brief but not for other writing, including scholarly writing, is to indicate that like this one from Wikipedia's [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kairos Kairos]:

"... [T]he word refers more to proportion, the mean, and the implicit sense of right measure."

It is better just to change without indication, because the reader is distracted by the bracketed original letter and in 99.99% of cases he doesn't care that you omitted the first word. If you think he would care, then tell him about it in a footnote instead, like this:

"The word refers more to proportion, the mean, and the implicit sense of right measure."<ref> Wikipedia, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kairos Kairos], viewed Boxing Day, 2020. The original says, "Here the word refers more to proportion, the mean, and the implicit sense of right measure."</ref>

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		+	=="Cleaned Up"==
		+	*[https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2935374 \| "Cleaning Up Quotations," 18 ''Journal of Appellate Practice and Process'' 143 (2017) Jack Metzler].
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	"The word refers more to proportion, the mean, and the implicit sense of right measure."<ref> Wikipedia, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kairos Kairos], viewed Boxing Day, 2020. The original says, "Here the word refers more to proportion, the mean, and the implicit sense of right measure."</ref>		"The word refers more to proportion, the mean, and the implicit sense of right measure."<ref> Wikipedia, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kairos Kairos], viewed Boxing Day, 2020. The original says, "Here the word refers more to proportion, the mean, and the implicit sense of right measure."</ref>
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		+	==Citations==
		+	Citations to discussion boards should be in a footnote, the same as with "personal communication from John Smith, Dec. 2, 2020", magazine articles, and blogposts. Don't list the pseudonym, just credit "an anonymous post at Economics Job Market Rumors".

	==Quotation Marks==		==Quotation Marks==

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 We must be accurate but not pedantic in quotations.  Always, your thought should be on what the reader needs to accurately and smoothly comprehend what the original was saying.
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+==Quotation Marks==
-'''Formatting.'''  This can be changed, usually. Consider, from Wikipedia's [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kairos Kairos]:
+It is awkward dealing with quotation marks within quotation marks. The convention is to use double quotation marks on the outside and single quotes on the inside, but I'm not sure that's optimal.  I think it is a Changeable rule; that is, if a writer uses a different but transparent and good convention, the reader will accept it without thought.
 {{quotation|"Kairos" (used 86 times in the New Testament)[19] refers to an opportune time, a "moment" or a "season" such as "harvest time," [20] whereas "chronos" (used 54 times)[21] refers to a specific amount of time, such as a day or an hour (e.g. Acts 13:18 and 27:9).}}
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 {{quotation|"Kairos" (used 86 times in the New Testament) refers to an opportune time, a "moment" or a "season" such as "harvest time,"  whereas "chronos" (used 54 times) refers to a specific amount of time, such as a day or an hour (e.g. Acts 13:18 and 27:9). [citations omitted]}}
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-'''Omitted words.''' If you omit the first words of a sentence, the pedantic style, one proper for legal brief but not for other writing, including scholarly writing, is to indicate that like this one  from   Wikipedia's [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kairos Kairos]:
+==Omitted words==
 "... [T]he word refers more to proportion, the mean, and the implicit sense of right measure."