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? To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web interface at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html and select "Join or leave the list" Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/