Kimmy asked: Sometimes when I'm reading magazines part of the sentence will be in brackets. What do they mean?
Monday, August 14, 2006
Brackets Question
Kimmy asked: Sometimes when I'm reading magazines part of the sentence will be in brackets. What do they mean?
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Journalists love to use brackets to help quotations from their interviews flow in their articles.
ReplyDeleteThe brackets signify that the journalist is adding words to help the article flow well.
Say a journalist is interviewing a resigning CEO, Stan Smith, about the new CEO, Marcy Martinson. If Smith constantly refers to Martinson as "she," the quote is not likely to fit well into the journalist's article. However, the journalist can replace one of Smith's "she's" with "Martinson" so it makes sense to the reader.
"[Martinson] is an extremely talented individual, and I am confident that she will lead the company for years to come," Smith said.
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