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How do I quote a song from Youtube? MLA format
I need to quote a song from Youtube. I don't own the song and the artist who sings it hasn't put an official version on YT.
How should I do this? It needs to be in MLA form.
This is the song: ...
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When quoting a person's informal speech, how much liberty do you have to make changes to what they say? [duplicate]
Even during a formal interview for a news article, people speak informally. They say "uhm", they cut off sentences half-way through, they interject phrases like "you know?", and they make innocent ...
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Should I close this quoted paragraph?
I have a paragraph of dialog which technically continues into the next paragraph, but I want to interject a "she continued" almost immediately into the second paragraph. So should I close the quote on ...
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How to quote from a foreign journal that has not been translated?
I need to quote from a journal written in Arabic. What should I do? Write it first in Arabic then followed by translation and indicating that it is my own translation (translated by author)? Can I ...
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Quoting characters' writing
If a character writes something inside of a diary, how do I quote it? Do I quote just like anything else? Specifically I am talking about page 145 of the Washington Square Press paperback edition of ...
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Is it appropriate to credit someone with a quote if I am not absolutely sure they are the source?
I read a quote a long time ago, but did not know the origin. I want to use it in a paper I am writing, so I tried researching to find out who is the source of the quote.
The quote is "We are the ...
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APA Formatting - Changing Adjectives in a quote
Should I change "our" to "their" in this quote? If so, how?
As stated in their 2011 Annual Report, Siemens’ identity and corporate culture is defined by their vision to be a pioneer, which is based ...
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Indirect source quotations [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Citing speech and interviews in biographies
How do you quote an indirect source (source quoted in another source) when there are explanatory words within the indirect ...
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Advice on choice of epigram
I am writing a paper on Internet censorship in China and was considering starting it with a thought provoking epigram to draw the reader.
The title of the paper in question is:
China's Internet ...
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What did Norman Mailer mean?
I read this quote recently, attributed to Norman Mailer, that has had my brain itching:
Alimony is the curse of the writing class.
What did he mean by it?
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Is it ok to begin an essay/report with a quote? [duplicate]
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Is it ok to begin an essay/report with a quote?
I am writing an essay on project management within IT and in my introduction I will give a brief description of project ...
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Punctuation-Quote or Quote-Punctuation?
I'm writing a document using the Chicago Manual of Syle. I have not access to the full guide, only to what's provided on-line.
Now I wondering as to whether, in the main text itself, I should use the ...
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Is it okay to quote a saying, even if i don't know who said it?
If it is okay to quote then how should i quote it. For example,
"Many wealthy people are little more
than janitors of their possessions."
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
Now if i don't ...
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Quoting text from a country with different internationalization.
I'm writing my doctoral dissertation here in the United States, and quoting some text from an English-language paper written in Germany. In Germany, the convention for writing numbers is to use a ...
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How to emphasize a quote is written, not spoken?
In a similar question on EL&U, I asked about suggestions for indicating that a quote is written instead of spoken.
Robusto's answer suggested several possible approaches:
For longer quotes of ...
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Who pays for lyrics or quotes?
Occasionally, novels will include song lyrics in the story, or start out chapters with songs or quotes. In many cases, these lyrics or quotes are from copyrighted materials and would presumably ...
