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theboss

May 15, 2010

Faq, Help / Is it safe to post my essay here? Or should I be worried about Plagiarism? [175]

First Post and A Question about Posting an Essay on here!?

Hey this is my first post, and I was just wondering that if I post my essay on here for help, and someone helps me edit it, can I take my post down? This is because I don't want my teacher to perhaps go online and type an excerpt from my essay on Google and even though it would be deleted on here, Google will still show the contents of what was posted in their search results (this happened to one of my Yahoo Answers questions.) but when you click it to go here, it would say it won't exist. So that bothers me, cause I'm supposed to be doing this essay IN CLASS (high school) but I just CAN NOT focus in class with noise and other people so I'm doing it at home and will bring it into class and copy what I have written already on the outline paper she gives us! Thanks for any help!

theboss

May 16, 2010

Grammar, Usage / How do I show that someone is speaking the quotation I have in my essay? [4]

For example, I have this quotation.. "I was getting quite cold. I couldn't do anything about it but it was driving me crazy! I had to do something about it." (Smith 11) Bobby being the narrator, by the way.. So, how would I show that Bobby was saying that? Would I do this?

[Bobby] "I was getting quite cold..." (Smith 11)

Please help in telling me if what I have just above here is correct, or maybe do I put his name in square brackets within the quotation marks at the beginning, at the end, or outside of the quotation marks at the end. Your help is appreciated!