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Get rid of most quotation marks. If your core values are quick, honest and dependable service, you don't need quotation marks. Example: "Quick, Honest, Dependable Service"--Why the quotations? Those marks are to separate one type of text from another. If this motto is on the side of a truck, I'd say it has enough separation from other text without quotation marks. Also, quotation marks are at times used to imply that what is in quotations actually means the opposite of what it says. So in that case you're saying that your service is neither quick, honest, nor dependable. Are you putting the material in quotations to indicate that someone actually said these words? What difference does that make? It does not emphasize the degree to which you hold to these core values. Despite this free advice, do not assume that erasing quotation marks solves all. There are many ways of straying from standard English. And even if your grammar is good, your meaning could, for various reasons, be ambiguous. The culprit is usually word choice (diction). Or your syntax. So send me your copy! And you don't the quotation marks. Example: "Quick, Honest, Dependable Service"--Why the quotations? Those marks are to separate one type of text from another. If this motto is on the side of a truck, I'd say it has enough separation from other text without quotation marks. Also, quotation marks are at times used to imply that what is in quotations actually means the opposite of what it says. So in that case you're saying that your service is neither quick, honest, nor dependable. Are you putting the material in quotations to indicate that someone actually said these words? What difference does that make? It does not emphasize the degree to which you hold to these core values. Despite this free advice, do not assume that erasing quotation marks solves all. There are many ways of straying from standard English. And even if your grammar is good, your meaning could, for various reasons, be ambiguous. The culprit is usually word choice (diction). Or your syntax. So send me your copy!
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These marks in your text may give you the proprietory satisfaction you were looking for with quotations. If you're going to indicate that some word or phrase of yours is a registered trademark of yours, you must have it approved and pay for it. As for TM and SM, discuss these designations with a lawyer. I am not a lawyer. However, I can tell you own the copyright to anything original that you write or anything original I write while editing what you wrote. And you meet not use words of others without acknowledging the borrowing. If the material is copyrighted, then, except under certain circumstances, you could be sued.  And as  that's the substantive part the paper, it's your responsibility.




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