Incognati Field Guide

Institutional Communications Specimen No. 11 — Selective Quotation & Ellipsis

An accurate-looking quotation can reverse a source's meaning when a qualifier or the surrounding sentence is trimmed with an ellipsis; the words are true, the meaning is not.

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