Re: Book publishing advice needed

Posted by Frank Wimberly-2 on Jul 04, 2020; 11:18pm
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I was more careful when submitting the book.  I always used the Oxford comma, for instance.  

But thanks.

On Sat, Jul 4, 2020, 5:06 PM Stephen Guerin <[hidden email]> wrote:

On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 3:09 PM Frank Wimberly <[hidden email]> wrote:

I hired an Amazon editor.  She said, I say boastfully, "There were virtually no spelling, grammar, or punctuation errors so let's talk about structural issues..."

Insert period before three trailing ellipsis points. How much did you pay your Amazon editor?   ;-p

MLA style places the sentence-terminating period immediately after the last word of the quotation, even though a period does not occur there in the original material. The three ellipsis points are then placed after this sentence-terminating period. 

eg

Thoreau argues that by simplifying one’s life, “the laws of the universe will appear less complex. . . .” 

 

 

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