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apa block quote rules
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- 06SaturdayDifferent Angle·
For years I thought block quotes showed respect for the source; scanning my own writing as a reader revealed that even I was skipping right past them.
A Block Quote Is Not Respect: The Comfort of Cutting and Pasting
Dumping a long block quote is often mistaken for respect toward the source; in truth, it is unrefined raw material that readers skip. When we tried trimming and weaving everything inline, we tripped in three critical places. Here is the conditional map with micro-examples.
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- 02TuesdayMain Essay·
I scanned my own writing through a reader’s eyes and realized: even I was skipping the blockquotes I had pasted as evidence.
Hit-and-Run Quoting: The Anatomy of a Bridge Sentence — and When It Bloats Your Prose
For years, we dropped blockquotes in isolation and followed them with "as we can see"; readers skipped right past. We tested a single bridge sentence beforehand: it saved readership on long, technical quotes, yet bloated short, self-explanatory ones. A micro-level look at bridge anatomy, signal verb choice, and syntax integration.
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