Linked to my faculty webpage is a directory of "Reporting Resources" put up on a website for newspaper journalists called No Train, No Gain It's a project of working journalists at The Omaha World-Herald and The Oklahoman in Oklahoma City, and it is very, very practical. It's also very, very good. Bookmark it.
Now scroll down the directory to the 23rd or 24th link. It will say:
Taking Great Notes for Great Stories A handout by Don Fry, writing coach, on taking notes. (MS Word document).Except it will have a working link. (I'm not computer-literate enough to link here to a Microsoft Word document.) This will tell you what you need to know about how to leave out words, and which words to leave out, as you take notes. And it'll show you how to ethically reconstruct the quote, i.e. put it back together, when you go to write the story. It will pay off bigtime if you study it till you're clear on what Fry is -- and isn't -- doing here.
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