Use double quotation marks (" ") to enclose phrases or entire sentences that were taken word for word from someone else. Quotation marks are not needed for paraphrasing. Example: The dog he brings on ...

From Sally Rooney to Richard Powers, the authors we spent time with this year provided a lot of quotable wit and wisdom.

The punctuation for integrating academic quotes is a little different than dialogue punctuation. When a quotation ends a sentence and the parenthetical citation is at the end, the period should come ...

In the example above, ‘Hard and sharp as flint’ is taken directly from the text. Remember to close the punctuation marks at the end of the quotation. Only use a capital letter in a quotation ...

With dialogue, specific punctuation is needed. Most often, commas and periods go within the quotation marks, but there are some forms of punctuation and examples that go outside of the quotation marks ...

Ex: Sue remarked, "I'll meet you at the movies," A comma is used to set off the quote from the rest of the sentence (as above) unless the quotation is blended into the sentence. Ex: Sue said that the ...

("We hope to win the game," he said.) A dash, semicolon, question mark and exclamation point go inside closing quotation marks when the punctuation applies to the quotation itself and outside when it ...