Day 61/100: Square Brackets. Square brackets are used to modify another person's words to make it clear that a modification has been made, not by the original speaker, in order to clarify the situation. Sometimes they're used around a quote that contains the word "it" to clarify the antecedent. This is done for a number of reasons, but most frequently because when a writer uses a quote in a paper, the reader is encountering the quote out of its original context and since readers rely on context to determine the antecedent, the antecedent needs to be provided. Square brackets are also used to enclose the Latin word sic, which means "so, thus." In academic writing, [sic] is used to denote an error that originally appears in the source material and is not attributable to the author who is using the quote. Square brackets can also be nested (using square brackets [like these] inside round brackets). [Digital type with a pattern inside - I use square brackets all the time!] #100daysofthepunctuationproject #the100dayproject #gm100dayproject #punctuation #punctuationdesign #punctuationproject #punctuationpattern #squarebrackets #brackets #nestedbrackets #clarification #journalism #writing #creativepunctuation #creativerepresentation
