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In regard to quoting, an ellipsis ( … ) is used to …
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An ellipsis is …
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Use the ellipsis with brackets around it [ … ] to omit …
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We use the three periods of an ellipsis ( … ) to omit …
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Brackets [ ] are used for either or both of these two reasons …
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An ellipsis should NEVER be used to …
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In the example below, the brackets are being used to clarify the meaning of the quote.
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In his rebuttal to Hacker’s article, Willingham contends that “[t]he on-the-job training in mathematics that Hacker envisions will go a whole lot better with an employee who gained a solid footing in math in school” (par. 16).
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In the example below, the brackets are being used to clarify the meaning of the quote.
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Per Stanford University psychology professor Dr. Carol S. Dweck in her winter 2008 article “Brainology,” “Many students [with a fixed mindset] believe that intelligence is fixed, that each person has a certain amount [of intelligence] and that’s that” (par. 3). Per Dr. Dweck: “Those [students] with a growth mindset [in contrast] had a very straightforward (and correct) idea of effort — the idea that the harder you work, the more your ability will grow and that even geniuses have had to work hard for their accomplishments” (par. 7).
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In the example below, both the long line of periods and the ellipsis are being used to omit words from a verse (line) of poetry.
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Both the tone and the mood in e.e. cummings’ 1952 poem “[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in]” are rapturous—as befits a poem about love:
here is the deepest secret nobody knows
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… the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart (2.9, 13)
*e.e. cummings wrote his name in all lower-case letters.
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In the example below, the ellipsis is being used to indicate that words have been omitted from the quote.
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In her winter 2008 article “Brainology,” Dweck asks an important question about using praise to motivate student achievement: “What if praising intelligence made all children [ … ] deny the role of effort and dedication in achievement”? (par. 14)
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In the example below, the ellipsis is used to indicate that words have been omitted from the quote.
Per Carol S. Dweck in her winter 2008 article “Brainology,” “A fixed mindset makes challenges threatening for students … and it makes mistakes and failures demoralizing” (par. 4).
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In the example below, the brackets are being used to clarify the meaning of the quote.
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However, Dr. King is also candid in his “Letter,” righteously admonishing the clergymen: “You deplore the demonstrations [civil rights marches, sit-ins, and boycotts] taking place in Birmingham. But your statement, I am sorry to say, fails to express a similar concern for the conditions that brought about the demonstrations [hate crimes directed against non-Whites—and Blacks in particular]” (par. 5).
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In the example below, the brackets are being used to alter the grammatical structure of the quote so that the quote integrates smoothly into the writer’s prose (writing) in an essay.
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In e.e. cummings’ 1952 poem “[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in],” the speaker tells us, the readers, that until we experience it, love will remain “the deepest secret” (2.9). But when we do experience love, we come to understand how fundamental it is to life and happiness: “the root of the root and the bud of the bud / and the sky of the sky of a tree called life” (2.10-11). Its reality transcends even the hope of the soul to find love—as it is “higher than soul can hope” (2.12). From love, the “mind can[not] hide” (2.12). Its “wonder” is what “keep[s] the stars apart”—keeps the world (our world—yours and mine) in working order (2.13).
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In the example below, [sic] is being used to indicate that the author of the quote–not the writer of the essay–made an error.
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In an April 4, 2016, article titled “36 Definitions Of Love” in Thought Catalog, a popular blogsite, this definition of infatuation—not love—is included: “When you’re in love, you always want to be together, and when you’re not, you’re thinking about being together because you need that person and without them [sic] your life is incomplete” (Donnelly).
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The word “sic” means “thus it was written” in Latin. Use [sic] after an English usage skills error in a quote to indicate that the author of a quote made the error.
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Brackets and an ellipis should never be used in the same quote.
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In the example below, the writer is using [emphasis mine] to indicate that the writer–and not the author of the quotes–italicized a part of the quote to emphasize its content.
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Was Dr. King hopeful—or ironic—when he wrote “since I feel that you are men of genuine good will [emphasis mine]” in his April 16, 1963, “Letter from Birmingham Jail”? (par. 1)
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In the example below, [emphasis mine] indicates that the author of the quote italicized part of the quote to emphasize its content.
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In his poem, cummings regards love between two people as both mysterious and rare; it “is the deepest secret [emphasis mine] nobody knows” (2.9).
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In the example below, the writer is using only brackets–not an ellipsis–in a quote.
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[T]o say Obama is progress is saying that he’s the first black person that is qualified to be president. That’s not black progress. That’s white progress. There’s been black people qualified to be president for hundreds of years [ … ]. The question is, you know, my kids are smart, educated, beautiful, polite children. There have been smart, educated, beautiful, polite black children for hundreds of years. The advantage that my children have is that my children are encountering the nicest white people that America has ever produced. Let’s hope America keeps producing nicer white people. (qtd. in Ingraham)
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In the example quote below, the writer is using brackets to capitalize the “t” in the word “to” and an ellipsis to indicate that one or more sentences have been omitted from the quote.
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[T]o say Obama is progress is saying that he’s the first black person that is qualified to be president. That’s not black progress. That’s white progress. There’s been black people qualified to be president for hundreds of years [ … ]. The question is, you know, my kids are smart, educated, beautiful, polite children. There have been smart, educated, beautiful, polite black children for hundreds of years. The advantage that my children have is that my children are encountering the nicest white people that America has ever produced. Let’s hope America keeps producing nicer white people. (qtd. in Ingraham)
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In the example below, the writer is using brackets to change a lower-case letter into an upper-case letter, to change an upper-case letter into a lower-case letter, and to clarify the meaning of a quote.
In a funny, but disturbing commentary about progressive attitudes toward race among white Americans, which caused them to elect a black President, comedian Chris Rock commented:
[T]o say Obama is progress is saying that he’s the first black person that is qualified to be president. That’s not black progress. That’s white progress. There’s been black people qualified to be president for hundreds of years [ … ]. The question is, you know, my kids are smart, educated, beautiful, polite children. There have been smart, educated, beautiful, polite black children for hundreds of years. The advantage that my children have is that my children are encountering the nicest white people that America has ever produced. Let’s hope America keeps producing nicer white people. (qtd. in Ingraham)
Sadly, “[f]ully one quarter of whites said they would oppose [a family member’s marrying a black person] … in 2008, the same year America elected the son of a white mother and a black father to the highest office in the land” (Ingraham).
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In the example below, the writer is using the first ellipsis to signal that words have been omitted from a quote, and the second ellipsis to indicate that sentences have been omitted from a quote.
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In a funny, but disturbing commentary about progressive attitudes toward race among white Americans, which caused them to elect a black President, comedian Chris Rock commented:
[T]o say Obama is progress is saying that he’s the first black person that is qualified to be president. That’s not black progress. That’s white progress. There’s been black people qualified to be president for hundreds of years [ … ]. The question is, you know, my kids are smart, educated, beautiful, polite children. There have been smart, educated, beautiful, polite black children for hundreds of years. The advantage that my children have is that my children are encountering the nicest white people that America has ever produced. Let’s hope America keeps producing nicer white people. (qtd. in Ingraham)
Sadly, “[f]ully one quarter of whites said they would oppose [a family member’s marrying a black person] … in 2008, the same year America elected the son of a white mother and a black father to the highest office in the land” (Ingraham).
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In the example below, the writer is using the first ellipsis to signal that sentences have been omitted from a quote, and the second ellipsis to indicate that words have been omitted from a quote.
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In a funny, but disturbing commentary about progressive attitudes toward race among white Americans, which caused them to elect a black President, comedian Chris Rock commented:
[T]o say Obama is progress is saying that he’s the first black person that is qualified to be president. That’s not black progress. That’s white progress. There’s been black people qualified to be president for hundreds of years [ … ]. The question is, you know, my kids are smart, educated, beautiful, polite children. There have been smart, educated, beautiful, polite black children for hundreds of years. The advantage that my children have is that my children are encountering the nicest white people that America has ever produced. Let’s hope America keeps producing nicer white people. (qtd. in Ingraham)
Sadly, “[f]ully one quarter of whites said they would oppose [a family member’s marrying a black person] … in 2008, the same year America elected the son of a white mother and a black father to the highest office in the land” (Ingraham).
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