Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Citing A Room of One's Own?

What's the convention for citing quotes from the Virginia Woolf piece? There are no page numbers given, so do we just give chapter number or do we give page number based on the pdf' file's pages? Another question: There were a lot of typos in the pdf file, should we maintain the typos while quoting (using the sic marker and what not) or can we go ahead and correct obvious mistakes in the quote?

Thanks
Tom

1 comment:

Ben Lempert said...

Yeah ... I'd say cite chapter numbers (just the number, you don't have to write "chapter X" every time), and go ahead and correct typos on your own (just be sure that what you're correcting is correct and isn't actually a different word!).