This essay's topic, for example, is essay writing. ... Milton is too easy for this, but Irving Layton provides a good example: And me happiest when I compose poems. ... ("The Birth of Tragedy" 1-5, 9-11) The sets of bracketed spaced periods in these examples represent ellipses--portions of the text that I did not include in my quotation. The first two ellipses in the Milton example (three spaced periods) let my reader know that I have omitted a word or words from that sentence. ... In other words, no footnotes! ...

• Word Count: 1737
• Approx Pages: 7
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• Grade Level: High School