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Pass It On: Errors in Direct Quotes in a Sample of Scholarly Journal Articles
Author(s) -
HERNANDEZ NELDA RAE,
WHITE ARDEN
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
journal of counseling and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.805
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1556-6676
pISSN - 0748-9633
DOI - 10.1002/j.1556-6676.1989.tb02132.x
Subject(s) - punctuation , meaning (existential) , sample (material) , statistics , psychology , linguistics , mathematics , philosophy , chemistry , chromatography , psychotherapist
Concern has been expressed in the literature over inaccuracies both in reference listings and direct quotes. This study examined one volume year of each of four journals in the social sciences to compare 1,278 quotes against the original sources. Of this total, 89 could not be found and 519 (43.7% of the remaining quotes) had one or more inaccuracies, ranging from trivial punctuation differences to errors that significantly changed the content meaning. Implications as well as suggestions for editors and writers for reducing errors are discussed.