Could anyone tell me the rules for paragraphing and punctuating dialogue?

Question

I'm writing a piece which has dialogue between two people.

Answer 1

This is a complicated subject and there are differences depending on whether you use American or British English writing conventions. Americans tend to use the double quote and for nested dialogue use the single quote; the British prefer the single quotation mark and the double for nested dialogue.

Apparently Canadians use either convention.

I am British and this is the way we do it:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/getwriting/A304...