Love it or hate it, composition professors report seeing an uptick in students' intentional use of single quotation marks outside their traditional context. Disclaimer: The following material may be ...

American presidents have often been noteworthy writers. Jefferson was an audacious native version of an 18th-century But there has never been a president whose writing has been as in our face -- from ...

Most often, quotation marks are used to show someone’s exact words. Sometimes, they also signal sarcasm or irony. In most cases, there is nothing especially unusual about this little punctuation mark.