User:Tony1/Quotation workshop

Wikipedia articles abound in direct quotations. Managing the inclusion of wordings from sources requires skill. This workshop includes a series of show-and-tell exercises in which you can test your skill in formatting and manipulating quoted material in running prose.

There are four guiding principles to good quoting practice:
 * 1) be true to the intended meaning in the source;
 * 2) integrate quotations into the article text as smoothly as possible;
 * 3) brevity is usually desirable;
 * 4) try to shield the readers from poor English in the source.

There are three basic devices for manipulating quoted text to achieve good practice:
 * shifting the quotation marks to manipulate the boundary between direct quotation and paraphrase;
 * using square brackets within a quotation to insert paraphrased text, for brevity, to supply the larger context, or to correct or disambiguate wording that may be unclear to the readers;
 * the insertion of ellipsis points to indicate that original text has been omitted;

The way quoted material is embedded into a sentence often involves introductory text, punctuation, and/or a speech verb.

Exercises
Each exercise presents an instance in which quoting practice could be improved. Try to identify how to make the improvements before looking at the hint.