Re: (Possibly OT) Can I quote you?

[Tkritr -at- aol -dot- com]

Keith queries: "But to what extent can/should they use such archival 
information? Can they quote us?"

Online sources and how to quote them are actually in the Publication Manual 
of the American Psychological Association (APA) Fourth Edition (1994) that I 
had to use for all of my papers (or get a lower grade) in grad school. At the 
time this edition was written, it is noted that a standard wasn't set yet; 
however that was eight years ago.

And just in case you don't think Techwr-l discussions would ever be used in 
papers or presentations:

In 1997 I attended the 15th Annual International Conference on Computer 
Documentation sponsored by ACM SIGDOC (a great conference, by the way).   
Bruce Overby wrote and presented: "Order and Chaos: A Sociological Profile of 
TECHWR-L"

Since I haven't thoroughly re-read the presentation, I might have missed some 
direct quotes. As I glance through the proceedings, however, it doesn't look 
like the author used direct quotes in this particular piece.  That doesn't 
mean that it hasn't been done somewhere else though. I also don't know 
whether or not the author contacted specific posters, or that he would need 
to contact them if he didn't directly quote them. 

If I were writing research papers again, I'd probably check a current copy of 
the APA (or similar reference) just to make sure I was quoting items 
correctly. 

Hope this provided some additional information,

Kirsten Petersen
technical writing consultant 



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