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And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by scholars the [Scholars walking outside of school]

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very models of super-intelligence, that is until they clock out for the day and

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there are some of the craziest party animals that have ever earned their PhD's

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what's the scholarly purpose for using ellipses to indicate omission in a quote

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and here are your potential answers.....

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okay so by

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scholarly we mean the legit and official reason for using ellipses to indicate

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omission in an essay so don't ask that kid is always throwing ellipses all over [Kid in a park throwing ellipses on floor and birds appear]

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the place we're not trying to feed pigeons here and ellipses get caught

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in their throats and they explode....Alright let's start with option D the idea that

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there's no scholarly purpose for using ellipses to indicate omission in a quote

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it seems like a stretch academics will use ellipses to indicate omissions in

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quotes all day long and if you challenge them they'll probably just ask you who [Man challenges academic in class]

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has the bigger pile of degrees yeah so D is out, what about C well it's true that

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you could use ellipses to alter the meaning of a quote to suit your purpose

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but it's super deceptive in bad scholarly form scholars really don't

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care for deception in fact they like it even less than a [Scholar trying to enter a library]

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large library how about A? Ellipses really aren't that great at rearranging

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quotes their punctuation marks not interior designers, so A is not it and

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what about B? when you're quoting something in an essay and you want to

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shorten the quote to only include the relevant parts you can definitely use an

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ellipsis to stand in for that beginning middle or end that you don't think your [Man inspecting three sentences]

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audience needs to read it's censorship in the best way possible so yeah B is

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the answer now that you know the proper scholarly purpose of an ellipsis you can

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probably even hang out with the scholars themselves... [Scholars dancing in a club]

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