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163: stealing 40 cakes from the walmart bakery does not warrant life in prison
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Re: ITT: Writing Pet Peeve
(Anonymous)
2016-05-08 09:28 pm (UTC)
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It can also depend on what's in the quotation marks: is the punctuation part of what's being quoted?
http://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2011/08/punctuating-around-quotation-marks.html
Re: ITT: Writing Pet Peeve
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2016-05-09 02:41 am (UTC)
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Oh, yeah, that's one of the exceptions. I see a lot of people who keep putting periods outside of quotation marks, though.
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Re: ITT: Writing Pet Peeve
(Anonymous) 2016-05-08 09:28 pm (UTC)(link)http://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2011/08/punctuating-around-quotation-marks.html
Re: ITT: Writing Pet Peeve
(Anonymous) 2016-05-09 02:41 am (UTC)(link)