02-19-2016, 06:26 AM
I don't know, is it your original work? If you are using someone else's original work (whether it is copyrighted is beside the point, that only comes into play when suing over plagiarized work, which can only happen on pieces since copyrighted material has become standardized in the legal system), you should acknowledge it and not pretend it is your own, simply to avoid being deceitful. Should you need more reasons, passing off someone else's work as your own in the literary world is at the top of the no-no list. I have seen people lose their jobs in academia for such violations. It goes to trust. While I'm sure you did not mean to be lifting, or did not feel as though you were using someone else's work as your own and you did acknowledge it in your note, it does however begin to breed distrust of a writer if people feel they play fast and loose with material that is not their own. So yes, if you use material that is someone else's, even non-published material, it should be put in quote marks, so that there is no doubt that you are not trying to pass off someone else's work as your own.
If the quote or paraphrase is widely known, say "You must be born again", then there needs no footnote. However, if the quote is not widely known, then a footnote is needed to identify where that quote came from. If I quote the line "Corporeal Friends are Spiritual Enemies" I would need to note it is from William Blake's poem "Milton" in the first book. This would be considered an adequate note for such a quote within a poem. In writing a literary paper governed by the MLA standards, it is much stricter.
By giving the reader the note it does 2 things, it acknowledges whose quote it is and it allows the reader enough information if they wish to go to the source for a greater understanding of why it was quoted, or simply because they are intrigued and wish to expand their knowledge in that area.
One last and very simple reason is in the name of the marks themselves, "quotation marks", that is these are to be used around anything that is a quote. Therefore, anything that is not the original material of the writer of the poem needs quotation marks around it.
Hope that helps,
dale
If the quote or paraphrase is widely known, say "You must be born again", then there needs no footnote. However, if the quote is not widely known, then a footnote is needed to identify where that quote came from. If I quote the line "Corporeal Friends are Spiritual Enemies" I would need to note it is from William Blake's poem "Milton" in the first book. This would be considered an adequate note for such a quote within a poem. In writing a literary paper governed by the MLA standards, it is much stricter.
By giving the reader the note it does 2 things, it acknowledges whose quote it is and it allows the reader enough information if they wish to go to the source for a greater understanding of why it was quoted, or simply because they are intrigued and wish to expand their knowledge in that area.
One last and very simple reason is in the name of the marks themselves, "quotation marks", that is these are to be used around anything that is a quote. Therefore, anything that is not the original material of the writer of the poem needs quotation marks around it.
Hope that helps,
dale
How long after picking up the brush, the first masterpiece?
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.