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If something is a quotation, you put it in quotation marks. If you are replacing part of a quotation with a paraphrase, you put the paraphrase in square brackets. "[Faith] can be active and effe...
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#4: Attribution notice removed
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2020-01-03T20:41:58Z (over 4 years ago)
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#3: Attribution notice added
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2019-12-08T09:30:51Z (over 4 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision
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2019-12-08T09:30:51Z (over 4 years ago)
If something is a quotation, you put it in quotation marks. If you are replacing part of a quotation with a paraphrase, you put the paraphrase in square brackets. "[Faith] can be active and effective only when man, through the exercise of his Reason, has already acquired knowledge of God, belief in God, and the conviction of the truthfulness and absolute reliability of the Prophet." [Izutsu 1965, p. 146] However, in this case, "Faith" is not an accurate paraphrase of "divine law". You are essentially co-opting Izutsu's sentence to describe something related but not the same. This is not fair play. You should never suggest that the person you are quoting said something they didn't say, no matter how small the difference. What you should do instead, if you really want to keep the quote, is give the whole quotation, and then say something like, "The same thing could be said of faith." The priority here has to be to treat your source material with respect, even if that means a slightly clunkier way of expressing your own idea.
#1: Imported from external source
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2018-07-28T10:28:33Z (almost 6 years ago)
Original score: 3