Is it acceptable and ethical to edit written interview quotes?
"Editorialising" in journalism typically refers to writing specifically to express opinion or injecting opinion into a piece of reporting, which is different from "editing", which, I believe, is what you're referring to.Cleaning up quotes is a fairly standard practice, but different publications impose different rules on how much you can alter a quote. AP does not allow reporters to clean up quotes except to remove extraneous sounds/fillers, like "um" or "uh".I.e. If your interviewee used an inappropriate word, you're not allowed to change it to the word you think they intended to say, even if it's very obvious what they really meant. You are allowed to use square brackets to reword a quote to make it more clear in context (especially in partial quotes) or change case when integrating a quote into your story, but it shouldn't change the semantics of the sentence.Written interviews can be especially problematic for the specific reasons you noted. Journalists follow different conventions from most other writers in terms of paragraph structure, preferring short paragraphs due to readability. Whether or not it's okay to make such changes to a written interview would depend on your editor's policy. I'm personally fine with it as long as you're not weaving sentences together out of order.Spelling mistakes and grammatical errors can also make the interviewee look really bad if you correct them (using square braces) or point them out ("[sic]"), but they make you look bad if you don't take any action. What you can do is call them up and ask for clarification in an effort to get a better quote out of them. Beyond that, you'll probably have to paraphrase and/or truncate the quote as needed.If it'd been a verbal interview, you could have asked them to repeat their last statement one more time, and most people usually do better expressing themselves the second time around. Alternatively, you can email them a cleaned up version of their quote to verify that it's accurate, and they'll usually sign off on the cleaned up version.For further reading, here's a good post from CBS discussing the issue of quote tampering and different attitudes held within the industry:http://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-...
How do you edit a quote you shared on Goodreads?
Go to quotes > my quotes. On the bottom right of each quote, it will say how many likes it has. If you click on the number of likes, that will take you to a page for that individual quote. If there was any way to edit or delete a quote, it would be on this page, but I see no such options on any of my quotes (might be different if you added a quote yourself, instead of just ‘liking’ it). If editing is not an option, there is at least an option to add a comment, which may be better than nothing.If your quote is a duplicate, or was mis-typed, and you want to delete it, contact goodreads customer care through the Contact Us page, or send an email to support (at) goodreads (dot) com.You can also post in the Goodreads Feedback group if you want to suggest a new feature (if they don’t like the idea of direct editing, I would ask for at least a flag button on quotes, because mistakes do happen). This might be the closest practical solution to what you’re after, but would take time to implement, if they decided to implement it at all. Can’t hurt to ask, though.
Does changing your Twitter username break tweets in which your old one is mentioned?
Google clearly states that changing your username will not affect your existing followers, direct messages, or @replies. but Twitter doesn't redirect tweets to your new handle if someone tweets to your old handle once you change it. Your old handle will be left for grabs so anyone will be able to use it.I would recommend you to take possession of your old handle (simply sign up as a new user with a different email address) and note in the description what your new handle is (and why).That way, even if someone mistakenly uses your old handle (which is unlikely) you'll be notified of it since you'll be in control of it and you'll be able to answer with your new handle then.Also, if you forget you've left a link to your old Twitter handle somewhere on the web, people will still be able to find you.
Need help writing descriptive essay on first day of college?
Here are some guidelines from an online website. There many others--just google "how to write a descriptive essay" if you want several pieces of information. (Or see sources below) Once you have written your essay, take it to your teacher for help with grammar and sentence structure, or talk to a counselor about how you might be able to get a tutor. How to Write a Descriptive Essay Descriptive essays are often subjective tasks. The first issue at hand is to make sure you know what type of paper you are writing. The descriptive essay is often creative, personal, or simply artistic. Discuss the assignment with your professor or teacher before you begin. Even though your descriptive essay is more personal than a standard five-paragraph or compare-contrast essay, there is still quite a bit of homework to be done. Here is a list of important rules to follow as your write this essay. Understand the concept Do your research Outline the paper Write the paper Re-write the paper Edit (outside editors) Descriptive essays rely on their nominal stature. It is more important to use imagery and metaphorical language than scientific data. Descriptive essays are not mathematic entries, nor are they always factual. They are opinions. Consequently, you can try to write and describe anything you desire. You simply have to do it well. As horrible as that sounds, your professors and teachers will tell you the same thing. Here are some tips to remember when writing your descriptive essay: Actually describe something Use concrete and abstract images Use concrete and abstract ideas Do not go overboard with adjectives and adverbs Do not go overboard with similes and metaphors Give it to someone else to see if your essay actually describes something While it may seem rather vague initially, sometimes a descriptive essay can be the most liberating and pleasurable essay to write. You are just writing something as you see it. If you can prove and describe an idea or image in language, then you have accomplished your task. Documentation and hard research are not always necessary components (although they may be).
Escapsulation is one of the basic principle of object oriented languages. its conceal its data. what is the me?
Keeping details inside the object, so that you can just use the parameters for methods and properties.
Is it proper to alter quotes or excerpts to create gender-neutral or non-sexist language?
Please don't. Your source's words are your source's words, and your emendations should be minimal in the interests of non-distortion. You may be justified in replacing a highly offensive term, such as c~~~, with a more anodyne alternative in brackets (e.g. [vagina]) or with the offending word dashed out, as previously in this sentence. Emending them to create gender-neutral language where none existed before is generally a much more invasive process and is likely to induce excessive distortion.Furthermore, the method I suggested for handling a slur does not erase the fact that the crude term, and the bias behind it, was used in the source quote. This is important information about the thinking, culture, background, personality and/or time of the source. To emend the quote into gender-neutrality does erase that information. It may not distort the superficial meaning of the quote, but it does distort the reality of the person you are quoting -- which isn't fair to either your source or your reader. You have a responsibility to present your source honestly; protecting the sensibilities of a minority of your readers from a gender bias that isn't even your own is beside the point. Your readers' right to know the truth about your source trumps that.On top of that, a quote from an earlier time that has been manipulated in this way is likely to sound wrong; linguistic anachronisms will probably be present, and that may affect the credibility of the quote (making it seem less genuine) or your personal credibility.
What was the real cause of the Civil War?
Money. As usual. This is also where the State Rights thing came into place. The South was knocking out all of this agriculture AND cotton for fabric. The North had gone almost strictly industry. The North had all these empty factories and the huge costs for purchasing raw materials from the South. Great Britain and Europe was more than willing to pay these costs for export of these raw materials, namely cotton. Therefore making these Southern property owners very wealthy. The wealthy business owners of the North took steps to legally change that practice so they would get the raw materials at a cheaper cost and control the commerce. When they tossed the ethical problem of slavery......they brought with them a winning argument over to their side. If the Southerners had no slaves, they wouldn't be able to produce these raw materials in such a quantity, thereby taking the commercial power away from the South and giving it to them, the wealthy businessmen, in the North. It is always about money, honey. Money and control.
If I want to republish a public domain book, but add chapters and make a change to the title, who is considered the author? Would I be a co-author, or am I an editor?
You have to distinguish between copyright infringement and plagiarism. Being out of copyright means that you cannot be sued for copying and asked to pay a royalty. Putting your name on something that you did not write is a different offense altogether. Options for avoiding plagiarism in the situation you mention include:1- "Work" by "Author" with commentary by "you". Or afterword, introduction, annotations, etc. 2- quoting the original chapters verbatim , with attribution, in the text of your differently named text.3- a title like "Sun Tzu's art of war for HR managers" or "Nabokov's Lolita for chat room groomers" where you use a separate font for the direct quotes, implicitly identifying their origins.4- for fiction, you could use the "tale within a tale" approach of Scheherazade, "Cloud Atlas" or "Inception" and just mention the author in the text of the outer fiction (e.g. "Hubert lay down on the bed in his hotel room, picked up the copy of the Talmud he had found in the drawer, and read "...").