Notes+on+how+to+quote

The most important thing to remember is to be consistent. Also: underlining and italicising are interchangeable depending on whether you are typing or handwriting. Obviously it is hard to italicise hand written writing! The title of a book, flim, newspaper, album, anthology, tv series, or other primary work: Away (handwritten) or //Away// (typed) 'Salvation comes with brooms and gumboots' in The Sunday Telegraph "One can see what will trouble / This sleep of mine, whatever sleep it is." "One can see what will troubleThis sleep of mine, whatever sleep it is.Were he not gone,The woodchuck could say whether it's like hisLong sleep, as I describe its coming on,Or just some human sleep." "There was a famous incident during the Falklands War when a shell landed amongst some **[soldiers]** and one yelled 'I've lost my leg!' and another one shouted back 'No you haven't, it's over here!' And they were so high on adrenalin //they all laughed//. Humour turns up in strange places. It can unite people, and blunt the edge of terror." "during the Falklands War when a shell landed amongst some squaddies and one yelled 'I've lost my leg!' and another one shouted back 'No you haven't, it's over here!' And **[...]** //they all laughed.// Humour turns up in strange places. It can **[...]** blunt the edge of terror."
 * In-text headings and titles **
 * The title of a song, poem, article, chapter, essay, tv episode, or other secondary work:**
 * Poetry or song lines **
 * A new line should be indicated by " / "** i.e.
 * UNLESS you are quoting more than two lines in which case you need to start on a new line and indent the paragraph,** i.e.
 * Then continue your own writing on the other side**.
 * General quoting **
 * If you need to insert alternative words to make the quote make sense, or to make a quote shorter, you put your own words in [square brackets], i.e.**
 * "There was a famous incident during the Falklands War when a shell landed amongst some squaddies and one yelled 'I've lost my leg!' and another one shouted back 'No you haven't, it's over here!' And they were so high on adrenalin //they all laughed.// Humour turns up in strange places. It can unite people, and blunt the edge of terror."**
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