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> Another point they stress: the adventure of wrestling with big ideas and expressing them: “Just enjoy writing,” they say. “Try to write the best version of yo
by abeppu 3y ago
> Another point they stress: the adventure of wrestling with big ideas and expressing them: “Just enjoy writing,” they say. “Try to write the best version of your paper. . . . You can’t please an anonymous reader, but you should be able to please yourself.”
Miller put two colons into the first sentence. There are four quotation marks wrapping text that isn't actually quoting anyone, in an article about a novelist who doesn't use quotation marks even when characters are speaking. The quoted paraphrase includes an unnecessary ellipsis.
Does Miller believe that McCarthy's rules are good ones?
- abeppu 3y agoActually, I was able to get to the Nature article through my library. I had thought the material in quotes was Miller paraphrasing. In fact, he's quoting from two separated points in the article but has changed the punctuation. The original used a colon. > Finally, try to write the best version of your paper: the one that you like. You can't please an anonymous reader, but you should be able to please yourself. I think in the context of writing about how a writer uses punctuation, these choices are significant.