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Sometimes it is
necessary to alter a source of quoted material, whether it is to indicate an
alternate, often incorrect, spelling or to clarify a particular point. In these
instances, place brackets [ ] around words added to quoted material.
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Nigel
Winthrop claims, “Criticism of Shakespearian [sic] tragedy is fraught with
accidental misinterpretations and purposeful misinterpretations” (89).
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Here, sic
is used to denote that the author spelled the word that way, not the writer of
the paper. Shakespearian is this case follows the English spelling.
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“She [Janice Joplin] had a
great influence on me as a singer,” added Melissa Etheridge.
o
Here, the
bracketed information has been added by the writer for the sake of clarity,
quite similar to an appositive.
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