When an exact quote is non-existent, what are the rules? And what if they don’t know you’re quoting them?
When an exact quote is non-existent, what are the rules? And what if they don’t know you’re quoting them?
A long time ago some of my profs said some brilliant things. Of course there is no record of exact wording to speak of. It’s in my old, fallable memory. I wouldn’t likely track down the profs.
If writing an article or book it would be useful to convey the ideas to others in a block quote with proper attribution -- noting as well that the profs may not necessarily want to be named. They may not even still be among us. I’m kind of tempted to give vague attribution that offers repudiation (e.g. “Dr. Doe”, without a first name).
I suppose from a GDPR standpoint (if in the EU), public quotes are fair game. But quotes that have not been made public would presumably either need consent, or be anonymised.
As far as mechanics goes, quote marks (“”) is always for direct quotes, correct? So how do we define the boundaries of a paraphrase?
The APA style seems to just leave it up in the air, with no instruction on boundaries: