<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # A leading plus sign declares an entire paragraph... > A leading plus sign declares an entire paragraph to be a reusable passage. The is not permission to extract an attractive fragment. It is the author's certification that the paragraph can enter without a missing antecedent, develop one coherent object, and leave with a completed consequence. The sentence-level quotation and paragraph-level passage are therefore nested but distinct forms of intellectual independence. **Source:** [[projects/The Argument in Miniature - How I Write Quotations, Paragraphs, and Reusable Prose|The Argument in Miniature: How I Write Quotations, Paragraphs, and Reusable Prose]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “A leading plus sign declares an entire paragraph to be a reusable passage. The is not permission to extract an attractive fragment. It is the author's certification that the paragraph can enter without a missing antecedent, develop one coherent object, and leave with a completed consequence. The sentence-level quotation and paragraph-level passage are therefore nested but distinct forms of intellectual independence.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/passages/passages-leading-plus-sign-forms-intellectual-independence ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->