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How to Work with Information from SourcesModifying Quotations Using EllipsesPassage from Gaele's Draft:Said Gedney: Everything about news media is circumstantial...What makes some news reportable and others not? I know [the media] won't lie to me, but I'm concerned about what they don't want me to know, and that concern leads me to distrust the media. (Personal Interview, October 22, 2000) Passage from Maria's Draft:Heather Moffie says understanding what the students may have trouble with is one of the toughest parts of her job. "It's a matter of sitting down with [the material] and finding out what's going to be difficult for someone else... Some students don't have the structures we have or if they do, it's not a part of their culture to think that way. [We have to ask ourselves] how do we teach them to re-think? ... We are teaching them a different way of looking at the world." In Gaele's essay about low voter turnout among 18- to 25-year-olds, shown on the right, he used an ellipsis to show that he modified the original quotation by deleting words. He was careful when deleting the words to be sure that he did not misrepresent the speaker's original intent. And because Gaele used a block quotation over four lines in length, he used a colon to introduce the quotation, indented the entire left margin, and did not use quotation marks. Note also that the source information comes after the period ending the quotation. In Maria's essay about the Intensive English Program (IEP) at Colorado State University, she included a quotation from an interview and used ellipses and brackets to indicate how she modified the original quotation. Because Maria wrote this text as a feature article, she followed journalistic style when documenting her sources; therefore, she did not provide a works cited list but instead identified her sources within the text of her document. Note that the Modern Language Association (MLA) recommends placing brackets around ellipses [...] when you shorten a quotation to indicate that the ellipsis did not appear in the original text. Brackets are not required of writers using other documentation styles, such as APA, Chicago, and CSE. Click on the Continue button to continue.
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