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Thread #99746   Message #2062667
Posted By: Janie
28-May-07 - 07:23 PM
Thread Name: BS: Poverty in the USA
Subject: RE: BS: Poverty in the USA
If you don't choose to quote the entire sentence, please follow proper conventions for indicating you are quoting only part of a sentence written by another author. You know, the dots before and or after that let the reader know the quote is not complete, and might therefore be out of context? Or at least clue them that part of the sentence or germaine idea has been left out by the quoter?

I have no reason to believe you are ignorant of those conventions.
And they are very strong conventions. People who fail to use them in editorials, publications, letters to the editor, reasearch papers, term papers, etc, sometimes find themselves in legal difficulties when they fail to use them. I doubt, and certainly don't intend to try to find out, if the same legal consequences apply to an internet forum. Your failure to follow these conventions, taught in any high school English class, contained in the Harbrace College Handbook, and required by any professional guide to writing professional papers, such as the APA rules regarding quoting other sources, is simply another indication of your lack of integrity.

Now, tell us more about your values.

Also, I'm still waiting to read your fix for poverty that leaves the current distribution of wealth and income untouched.

J.