Quotations referenced in scholarly monographs

Incomplete sentence quotations in books and journals

“…If the actual words of the quotation were the focus of discussion, a hypertext system could use this as a clue that the pertinent parts of the quoting and the quoted documents should be displayed side by side, so the reader could easily examine them at the same time (Haas, 1993). The research described in this article extends work done by Kilgour and Feder (1992) on the frequency of direct quotations and other references to others' work. It looks specifically at the use of incomplete sentence quotations (ISQs).…”

“…ISQs drawn from the same original sentence in the quoted text, but used as separate quotations within the same matrix sentence in the quoting text, were considered separate ISQs. These definitions result in different book ISQ totals from those reported in Kilgour and Feder (1992), and shown in Table 1, but the differences do not affect the results of this study.…”

“…Quotation provides a link between the work in which it is used, and the work from which it was taken. The research described in this article extends work done by Kilgour and Feder (1992) on the frequency of direct quotations, looking at the use of incomplete sentence quotations (IX&). Specifically, this research attempts to determine if (a) there are any patterns of usage in the parts of speech that are quoted in ISQs; (b) there are any patterns of usage in how the ISQs are incorporated into text; (c) there are any systematic differences in ISQ usage between four disciplinary areas; and (d) there are any systematic differences in ISQ usage between scholarly books and journals.…”

“…First, let us present a summary of the major findings of this research. Kilgour and Feder (1992) and this study found that a substantial proportion of direct quotations used in books and journals are incomplete sentence quotations (ISQs). There were no major differences in the numbers of ISQs in the different disciplinary areas, which were examined (Arts, Humanities, Social Science, Science and a Percentages given in each POS column are the percentages of that POS with an explicit cue word.…”

“…In ranking the POS by frequency, only the Arts books showed a consistent ranking, with AP being the third most frequent POS. Kilgour and Feder (1992) found that quotations made up a much smaller portion of references in the Arts books than in the other disciplines (Arts, 39%; Humanities, 78%; Social Sciences, 76%; Science and Technology, 74%). They also found a wide range in the percentage of ISQs (see Table 1).…”