PROBLEM: We put quote marks around paraphrased information, implying it was what was directly told to us. Doing so is a fatal.
SOLUTION:
We can turn a quote to a paraphrase, but not a paraphrase to a quote.
Quotes can only be what was exactly said by a person or a document. In
this case, the paraphrased information you had from the meeting could not be
turned into quotes.
We
have to be very careful in using quote marks. They are ONLY to be used
to convey the EXACT words of an identified source, and not a summation
of what they said. In English comp we often use quotes as a decorative
element, to highlight key words and phrases of the writer's own doing.
In journalism, we can NEVER do that.
A quote goes inside of quotation marks, and nothing else.
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