Use a Historical Quotation Carefully - Practice 2

A quotation needs provenance and context.

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A quotation needs provenance and context. A translation involves choices; an ellipsis can remove important qualifiers. Compare the original wording or a reliable edition when possible. The excerpts here are explicitly invented, not historical quotations.

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Invented line: Some boats arrived late during the storm. Rewriting it as All boats were always late changes both scope and time.

Three schematic record forms: a page of writing, a landscape picture and an unmarked object. Form alone cannot establish accuracy; ask about creator, date, audience and purpose.

Would you believe it?

Doubling both width and height makes four times the area. This is why enlarging a map changes area faster than length.

Question 1 Invented line: Several fields flooded in spring. Which summary preserves scope? No fields ever flooded. Several fields flooded in that spring. Every field flooded every year.

Question 2 Invented line: I heard that the ship arrived. What kind of knowledge is directly claimed? A report heard by the writer The writer personally witnessed arrival Proof the writer was the captain

Question 3 Invented line: We plan to build a school. What does it establish? Proof the school was completed Proof nobody opposed it A stated plan

Question 4 An excerpt is detached from the paragraph explaining a condition. What is needed? A new invented ending The surrounding context Only the short excerpt forever

Question 5 Which practice makes an adapted classroom excerpt honest? Label the adaptation and preserve meaning. Present invented text as an archival quotation. Remove all uncertainty silently.

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