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Q Read • Quotes: https://www.thenewsmanual.net/Manuals%20Volume%201/volume1_08.htm • Attribution: https://www.thenewsmanual.net/Manuals%20Volume%201/volume1_09.htm Answer the reading response questions. Write at least one sentence per question drawing directly from the readings. 1. Why are quotes important and what purpose do they serve? 2. What are some of the different types of quotes? 3. When should a journalist add a quote to a news piece? 4. How should a journalist address “partial quotes?” 5. Is there such a thing as too many quotes in an article? 6. How should a journalist assess how many quotes to add? 7. What is attribution? What is “reported speech”? 8. When do you need to use attribution? 9. How do you attribute facts vs. opinions? 10. What other important considerations apply to attribution?

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1. Quotes are important because they tell the exact words spoken by the speaker. The main advantages are less times of miscommunication, better clarity in conversation. 2. Partial and incomplete quotes, scare quote are the two types of quotes. 3. When the journalist is simply writing what the concerned person has said, he/she should add a quote. 4. For any partial quote, the full quote has to be given later in the story.