Use of Quotation marks
Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2021 7:18 am
I got into a discussion last week with my granddaughter. The argument revolved around the use of quotation marks when quoting text by unknown authors i.e. Anon.
She argued that since we did not know the author we couldn't know we are actually quoting them correctly; and if we don't quote them correctly then it is not actually a quote. How do we know what the author actually said or wrote if we don't know who they were. At best, we are quoting what someone else claims they wrote or said.
Any comments?
She argued that since we did not know the author we couldn't know we are actually quoting them correctly; and if we don't quote them correctly then it is not actually a quote. How do we know what the author actually said or wrote if we don't know who they were. At best, we are quoting what someone else claims they wrote or said.
Any comments?
