Samuel Richardson’s practice of explicitly opening and closing quotations was imitated in other works, and by the end of the eighteenth century marginal quotation marks had largely disappeared ...

Take quotation marks: Some forms of writing ... whether any given sentence is dialogue or narration. Defenders of the practice will insist that such techniques "force" the reader to contemplate ...

Quotation marks are used to set off a person's words, whether spoken or written. They are placed at both the beginning and end of the quote. Ex: Sue remarked, "I'll meet you at the movies," A comma is ...

If you are an American, using quotation marks could hardly be simpler ... but I discovered that part of the reason this hybrid quote practice is spreading is that people aren’t seeking experts.

What shocked me was the punctuation. Either the writer or the assignment editor who read the article before me got the quotation marks right. And considering how baffling American punctuation ...

Busy legal writers can be driven to the brink of sanity by quotation marks that face in the wrong direction. On the legal writing professors' listserve, Jan Levine (at Duquesne University), has ...

Note the order of the punctuation: Quotation mark, citation, and then period. If only part of a quote is needed, it is possible to omit information and replace it with ellipses. Ellipses (. . .) are ...

Apostrophe with single quotation mark: This one’s harder. Sometimes one of those words that ends in an apostrophe can appear at the end of an internal quotation that ends with a single quote ...