ENG 1001: Using Quotations Properly
You can use brackets within quotations to indicate material you have added to a just a sentence or two before the sentence in which I use the quotation. TIP Sheet The dash () is used to set off additional material within a sentence, Use brackets to highlight errors in the original text of quoted material by
Brackets, Ellipses, Hyphens, Capitalization Br X: use brackets sparingly. Cap: capitalization. Ell: ellipses. 1. proper nouns and lcommon nouns. 1. omissions. 2. first word of a sentence.
Punctuation/The Well Bred Sentence
Some writers use square brackets to distinguish neutral explanations from remarks. Slide 1
The brackets in the following sentence enclose the writer's remarks and ...
Use ellipsis points to show omission. Use brackets for sense of sentence.
Direct Quote. Main idea of passage:. Direct Quote. Source Name Page Number ...