{"id":1848,"date":"2020-01-05T06:00:54","date_gmt":"2020-01-05T12:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookofdreams.us\/?page_id=1848"},"modified":"2020-01-04T07:54:44","modified_gmt":"2020-01-04T13:54:44","slug":"tcmos-quotations-dialogues-chapter-13","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bookofdreams.us\/writing\/my-blogs-on-chicago-manual-of-style\/tcmos-quotations-dialogues-chapter-13\/","title":{"rendered":"TCMOS \u2013 Quotations & Dialogues \u2013 Chapter 13"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Sunday, January 5th<\/sup>, 2020 Quotations<\/p>\n\n\n\n Guidelines: <\/strong>For Inline or block quotes, give credit to the source (covered in Chapter 14<\/em>) with needed written permissions for multi-line references. Too many<\/em> quotations may be distracting. So consider paraphrasing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n But if you quote, take great pains to be verbatim. Certain changes, however, are tolerated like punctuations, the original notes of reference, obvious typographic errors, font, appearance, and indentations, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Appearance: <\/strong>Run-In<\/em>: This term means inside the same line as the surrounding text. Run-ins are quotes \u201clike this for short ones.\u201d Phrase fragmentary quotations \u201cin such a way that the words fit into the larger sentence logically\u201d as described in TCMOS, Chapter 13<\/em>. You must also integrate tense and pronouns wisely (quote a subset versus the entire) to keep the integrity of the sentence intact. You are encouraged to use [<\/strong>to put in brackets the original wording of the changed text]<\/strong> next to the word altered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For larger quotes (say, over a hundred words), use block quotations, starting on a new line with a left indent. Salutations, signatures would make block quotations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Punctuation starting a quotation:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Use of a comma in the examples below works:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Isabella said, \u201cNever!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jason wrote, \u201cMy wife said never\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Both the following dialogues are correct but note the difference in capitalization and punctuation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI don\u2019t even know her name,\u201d she whispered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI don\u2019t even know,\u201d she whispered, \u201cher name.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The h<\/em> of \u201cher\u201d is lowercase because the parts of dialogue before and after the tag are subordinate. If they weren\u2019t, capitalize the h<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But don\u2019t use a comma if you were introducing a quotation \u201cLong live opera!\u201d in a sentence. A similar rule applies to dialogues written as statements. You can also introduce a quotation with a colon: \u201cI have miles to go before I sleep.\u201d Note the capitalized I.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n For a block quotation that follow a period, indent the whole section.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The paragraph following the block quotation assumes normal indentation unless it\u2019s a continuation of the clause that introduced it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Capitalization<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n When introducing a quotation in the middle such that it \u201cf<\/strong>orms a syntactical part of the sentence,\u201d begin it with a lowercase letter unless it forms a remote relation with the sentence: \u201cT<\/strong>he woods are lovely, dark, and deep, but I have promises to keep.\u201d The guiding principle <\/em>is that if you can use the quote in a sentence tied to the overall structure, whether run-in or block quotation, the first letter is lowercase, else capitalized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Poetry<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Poetry extracts are center-aligned on a separate paragraph, but if multiple stanzas of a long poem exist, they are best uniformly aligned left. Half to a full line appears between stanzas. Runover lines in poetry extracts are indented one em from the line above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Quotation Marks<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dialogues and Conversations<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ellipses<\/p>\n\n\n\n Three spaced dots that signal faltering speech, a receding voice is called the ellipses. The example below from my WIP:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI doubt it, and besides . . .\u201d I glanced around, taking a big lump of air. Wealthy people dined here. Not me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Note that the spaces exist between the periods. Separate the surrounding text from the ellipsis by a space, always. But if punctuation appears at the end of the ellipsis, omit the space. Here\u2019s the example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cNo . . . N<\/strong>o, my darling .<\/strong> .<\/strong> .\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n When NOT to use the ellipses:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Variations:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Add a period before an ellipsis to signal the omission of the end of the sentence. Note, in this case, add no space between the last character and the first period as the normal ellipses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I am a sentence cut.<\/strong> . .<\/strong> . T<\/strong>here are other examples in TCMOS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Punctuation following ellipses includes no space but does before it. Example: \u201cI am at a loss, . . .\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n My Takeaway<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The chapter ends with rules around citation (which I will write more in Chapter <\/em>14), and how to write about illegible content or changed content for clarification. And as has been with all my blogs, I am content to cover the meat of this chapter, aware of everything I left out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Of all the things, I learned about the spacing of ellipses to denote different scenarios, and I am signing off educated on how to format the Letters from the Queen<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sunday, January 5th, 2020 Blog #9 of my learning from #TheChicagoManualOfStyle. Quotations Guidelines: For Inline or block quotes, give credit to the source (covered in Chapter 14) with needed written permissions for multi-line references. Too many quotations may be distracting. So consider paraphrasing. But if you quote, take great pains to be verbatim. 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Blog #9 of my learning from #TheChicagoManualOfStyle.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n