[WikiEN-l] What to do about our writing quality?
WJhonson at aol.com
WJhonson at aol.com
Sat May 24 19:13:13 UTC 2008
In a message dated 5/24/2008 7:32:17 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
refero.relata at gmail.com writes:
If the original addition is carefully worded to closely
paraphrase a point in the secondary source, a copyeditor concerned about
style might well - and frequently does - come in and change that such that
it is no longer sufficiently faithful to the nuances in the source, since
the copyeditor does not have access to the source.>>
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What I do in that case, is go back, and change the wording, and ref with a
full quote in the footnote.
Quoting is always a good trump card for bad paraphrasing.
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