(February 18, 2021 at 5:08 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote: APA format allows you to omit unnecessary parts of a direct quote and replace them with ellipses as I have done. You were quoted accurately. Only the two sentences presented were essential to my response.
Edit: Upon reading the Chicago Manual of Style, it appears that although my use of ellipses is correct, bracketing them is not. Brackets imply an omission on your end, not an omission on mine.
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Please review the forum rules - in this case particularly #18 - Quoting other members of the forum inaccurately is against the rules. Any changes in the format of a quote must be called out by the poster with a note (i.e. "bold mine").
Please review the forum rules - in this case particularly #18 - Quoting other members of the forum inaccurately is against the rules. Any changes in the format of a quote must be called out by the poster with a note (i.e. "bold mine").
And if you want to argue this, go to the correct forum thread to do it. It's not going to be debated here. Specifically: Atheist Forums - Questions, Problems, Suggestions, and Feedback
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