Well, as long as we're talking about quotation marks...

How would you punctuate this?  Notice the second comma placement.

In the article "Hand Sanitizers, Good or Bad?," the author states that
hand sanitizers do not always contain sufficient alcohol to be
effective. 

or 

In the article "Hand Sanitizers, Good or Bad?", the author states that
hand sanitizers do not always contain sufficient alcohol to be
effective.    

Janet
-----Original Message-----
From: Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar
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Sent: Saturday, October 24, 2009 6:26 PM
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Subject: Re: Good Grief, Good Grammar

At 09:25 AM 10/24/2009, Brad Johnston wrote: . . .
>page 133: "Rules about quotation marks used in conjunction with 
>commas and periods often bring resistance because they are 
>illogical. Never mind, just learn them. Place commas and periods 
>inside closing quotation marks . . .
>Nonsense. It is easy, logical, and meaningful to put quotation marks 
>where they belong, at both ends of a quotation. Why would anyone 
>struggle to teach it otherwise?

DD: Because you write to the style book's conventions, or you don't 
get published? 

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