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Academic question
Mar. 5th, 2008 09:55 amI have a question about quoting that I thought someone might know the answer to. I don't feel like trying to hunt it down online.
So I'm collecting research on science education for a lit review for a grant going to the NSF. Most of the science literature also talks about mathematics, though, but I don't need this part. So I've got a quote:
"Teachers, like their students, best learn science and mathematics by doing science and mathematics, by investigating for themselves and building their own understanding, as opposed to being required to memorize knowledge that is 'already known.'"
I want to quote it cutting the word mathematics both times. Do I have to use ellipses? I hate using ellipses, it always makes the reader wonder what critically important part of the sentence you cut because it didn't support your point. So, all you academically minded folk, do you think I can get away with that? Obviously, I'll be citing it, etc.
So I'm collecting research on science education for a lit review for a grant going to the NSF. Most of the science literature also talks about mathematics, though, but I don't need this part. So I've got a quote:
"Teachers, like their students, best learn science and mathematics by doing science and mathematics, by investigating for themselves and building their own understanding, as opposed to being required to memorize knowledge that is 'already known.'"
I want to quote it cutting the word mathematics both times. Do I have to use ellipses? I hate using ellipses, it always makes the reader wonder what critically important part of the sentence you cut because it didn't support your point. So, all you academically minded folk, do you think I can get away with that? Obviously, I'll be citing it, etc.
