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please help with the Use of brackets in a quotation?
this is the quote: "our understanding of UA and MI is evolving."
now since it is the first time i am using UA and MI in my paper, can i do this?:"our understanding of UA [unstable angina] and MI [myocardial infarction] is evolving."
is this the proper use of the brackets?
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- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
yes. brackets are used when you are deliberating altering a quote so that the reader knows what you changed, or to insert information into a quote. anything within brackets in a quotation is understood to be inserted by the author and not part of the original quote.