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Quote Research

• How to Check OCR Errors Before Quoting a Scanned Page — Compare the extracted text with the page image, word by word, before treating it as a quotation.
• How to Shorten a Quote Without Changing Its Meaning — To shorten a quote without changing its meaning, copy the full passage and its context first.
• How to Verify a Quote Before Sharing It — Verify a quote by preserving its exact claimed wording, searching distinctive phrases with and without the attributed name, and tracing the oldest…

Quotation Practice

• How to Start a Commonplace Book — Start a commonplace book with a notebook or searchable digital file and a simple index.