Style manual: Archaic spellings

Answer choices

1. A

   Contradiction2% picked this

   If an editor corrects the spelling of a quoted word and the word occurs only once in the text, then an explanation should appear

   The third statement indicates that spelling may be corrected without explanation.

   2%
2. B

   Contradiction12% picked this

   An editor may modernize an archaic spelling of a word found in a modern work

   From the first and second statements the editor should preserve the archaic spelling of a quoted word or provide an explanation if it is modernized.

   12%
3. C

   Negation11% picked this

   An editor should modernize an archaic spelling of a word that is quoted from an older work if the

   This negates the first statement. ~F + IRC → ~P

   11%
4. D

   Correct70% picked this

   An editor may modernize punctuation directly quoted from an older work if that punctuation occurs frequently and

   Why this is right

   This answer provides more F + IRC → MM than enough information to trigger the second statement.

   Skill tested: Must be True · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.

   70%
5. E

   Too Strong5% picked this

   If an editor modernizes only one of several similar instances of quoted archaic punctuation, an explanation should appear in

   The second part of the second statement implies that if such modernizing has been done in more than one quotation, a statement in the preface should be included. But to say that is true if such modernizing has been done in only one of several similar instances goes beyond what can be inferred.

   5%