An undergraduate in arts # 2

SOURCE TEXT: 

Using the death penalty as the exemplar social issue, this study explored whether lawyers’ sociopolitical attitudes affect their judgments about the legal relevance of social science research introduced in court cases. …Court death penalty cases along with descriptions of the social science evidence contained in the Court opinions, with the evidence manipulated in this study to either support or not support the death penalty. (p.48)

Redding, Richard E., Reppucci, N. Dickon “Effects of Lawyers’ Socio-political Attitudes on Their Judgements of Social Science in Legal Decision Making” in Academic Reading: reading & writing in the disciplines. Ed. Janet Giltrow. Peterborough ON: Broadview, 2002.

Writer’s text:

As has been shown by Redding and Repucci (1999), lawyers often allow their socio-political biases to negatively influence their acceptance of social science evidence that is contrary to their own socio-political attitudes.

Writer’s comments:

(Particular words cited: social science evidence; socio-political attitudes.)

I didn’t think of using quotations. It will look awkward… It would look confusing to me. … A lot of times people use quotation marks because there were not really agreeing with what has been said. … I use quotations that way a lot.

Web Dictionary Comment  

In this instance, no quotation marks are necessary, as this is not a direct quotation.