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Lesson 7Common Writing Mistakes

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Assignment

Read the introduction to DescriptiveWriting in Great Writing pages 10 - 17

Read The Death of the Moth by VirginiaWoolf in Great Writing page 42 Answer question #2 under M eaning and Idea

on page 44

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Assignment Review

Chapter 31 Quotation Marks in Little,Brown Handbook

Exercise 31.2 Quoting TitlesSnow Toward Evening, page 54 in GW Language, Form, Structure #1 and #2

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Snow toward Evening

Language, Form, Structure #1 and #2 page 55GW

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QUOTATION MARKS

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Quotation Review Indirect quotationLewis Thomas says that human beings are uniqueamong animals in their worrying.

Q uotation marks with other punctuation marks Commas and periodsHuman beings are the worrying animal, saysThomas.

Semicolons and colonsMachiavelli says that the majority of men livecontent; in contrast, Thomas calls us the

worrying animal.

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Quotation Review Question marks, exclamation points, dashesW hen part of own sentenceWho said that human beings are the worrying

animal?W hen part of the original quotationWill you discuss this with me? she asked.

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Quotation Review

Al tering quotations Brackets for additionsWe [human beings] worry away our lives, saysThomas.

Brackets for altered capitalization[T]he worrying animal is what Thomas calls

us. He says that [w]e worry away our lives. Ellipsis marks for omissionsWe are . . . the worrying animal. says Thomas.

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Quotation Review

P unctuating signa l phrases withquotations Introductory signal phraseThomas says that the worrying animal isafraid and restless.

Concluding signal phrase

We are the worrying animal, says Thomas. Interrupting signal phraseI do not like the idea, she said; however, Iagree with it.

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Titles to be used in Quotation Marks

Songs Lucy in the Sky with DiamondsShort poems

Sunday MorningArticles in periodicals Comedy and Tragedy TransposedEssays Politics and the English Language

31.2

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Titles to be used in Quotation Marks

Short stories The BattlerPage or document on a Web site Readers Page (on site Friends of Prufrock)Episodes of television and radio programs The Mexican Connection (on 60 Minutes)

Subdivisions of books The Mast Head (Chapter 35 of Moby-Dick)

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In Class Exercise

Handout Exercise 31.3 RevisingQuotation Marks