I'm curious to know what editors think of "internet resources." I'm sure editors will do fact checking of articles. Do they frown upon using resources from the internet? Thanks.
Can you use and quote internet sources for an article?
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Hi Angela
I think that really depends on the credibility of the source. For example, when Wikipedia first appeared, it was considered highly unreliable because of the fact that anyone could contribute to it, but they've worked very hard to improve things over the past few years, and now have a much better reputation. Other sites, such as the CIA World Factbook, are considered to be as reliable as any printed encyclopedia.
However, you bring up another point. While it used to be true in the past that many Editors had staff to do article fact-checking, few do these days, and in a lot of cases it's up to the author to check his/her own facts.
This is particularly true for print publications - online magazines worry less about it because pages can easily be changed if needed to correct an error - but a printed publication can't, so they are much more careful about what gets into print. Authors with a good reputation for the reliability of information in their articles (which means that the publication needs to do very little, if any, fact-checking) will have an easier time getting published, and will have a much better reputation with Editors.
Remember, the world of print publication Editors is a small one, and they do indeed talk to each other about writers.
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Check with the editor to see what is acceptable. Most editors will accept resources from the internet as long as they're credible, i.e., National Geographic, Travel+Leisure, well known and published travel writers, etc...
Posted 2 years ago #
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