An opening quotation mark should appear at the beginning of
each paragraph of the quoted text and a closing quotation mark
at the end
The general convention is for
sentence
punctuation to be included inside the quotation marks, even if
the
punctuation
is not part of the quoted
sentence
Another common use of quotation marks is to
indicate or call attention to ironic or apologetic words:
He shared his "wisdom" with me.
The lunch lady plopped a glob of "food" onto
my tray.
Quotation Marks
Examples
Standard usage:
“Good morning, Dave,” said HAL.
For speech within speech:
HAL said, "Good morning, Dave,” said Frank.
Note:
do not use quotation marks for paraphrased speech
Correct: HAL said that everything was
going extremely well.
Incorrect: HAL said that “Everything was going extremely well.”
Titles of artistic works - quotation marks, rather than italics, are
generally used for the titles of shorter works:
short fiction, poetry, etc.: Arthur C. Clarke’s “The Sentinel”
book chapters: The first chapter of 3001: The Final
Odyssey is “Comet Cowboy”
articles in books, magazines, journals,
etc.: “Extra-Terrestrial Relays,” Wireless World, October 1945
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