Archive for May 15th, 2008

You ask, we answer: Interviews by IM

May 15, 2008
By Diana Burrell

Katrina asks, “Recently, an interviewee requested an interview be conducted via instant messenger. Ultimately, we conducted a phone interview, but I was left wondering: How would quotes from an instant messenger interview be attributed? Can they be enclosed in quotation marks or should they be paraphrased? For that matter, what about email interviews? The...
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