Comment 62748

By TB (registered) - website | Posted April 26, 2011 at 18:03:41 in reply to Comment 62698

Well, using that logic you should also correct their grammar perhaps, and maybe if their logic is a little faulty, or if a statement is ambivalent, maybe tweak those a bit too, I mean, after all, you knew what they meant to say, right? Answers to questions put to candidates should be printed exactly as received. To alter them in any way gives a false impression.

As an editor, you should follow this well known convention:

"Sic – generally inside square brackets, [sic], and occasionally parentheses, (sic) – when added just after a quote or reprinted text, indicates that the passage is just as it appears from its original source. The usual purpose is to inform readers that any errors or apparent errors in the copied material are not from transcription – i.e. that they are reproduced exactly from the original writer or printer. Bracketed sics have also been used in humorous comments and for ridicule, typically by drawing attention to the original writer's mistakes."

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