I Was Parenthetically Incorrect – Bredemarket

When a Bredemarket consumer was reviewing my draft, the consumer requested about my use of parentheses round particular person letters.

“what’s the function of the “()” within the “(L)eading organizations…” and “(G)en AI…“?”

So I defined.

“I must verify, however presumably the unique textual content stated “main” and “gen.” To correctly use the quote as a partial quote I capitalized the phrases, however enclosed them in parentheses to point I modified the unique textual content.”

However I assumed I’d higher verify to see if I used to be proper. Which is sweet, as a result of I wasn’t. Nancy Lewis in Writing Commons:

“When writers insert or alter phrases in a direct citation, sq. brackets—[ ]—are positioned across the change. The brackets, all the time utilized in pairs, enclose phrases supposed to make clear which means, present a short clarification, or to assist combine the quote into the author’s sentence.  A typical error writers make is to make use of parentheses rather than brackets.”

Nicely, at the very least I’m not the one one. Lewis additionally supplied a number of examples, together with this one:

“[D]riving just isn’t as computerized as one may suppose; the truth is, it imposes a heavy procedural workload [visual and motor demands] on cognition that . . . leaves little processing capability accessible for different duties” (Salvucci and Taatgen 107).

I simply corrected my consumer’s piece earlier than publication, and can attempt to keep in mind to make use of brackets as wanted in all items day ahead. I’m not going to return by the a whole lot of weblog posts right here and proper them.