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<p class="MsoNormal">I’ve had similar issues, but nothing so egregious.*<br>
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Options for using it as a sample include:<br>
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1) Put it on your website or other web presence, but with their opening instead of yours. At the end, in italics, say, “A version of this article originally appeared at [Site/Link].”<br>
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2) When asked for samples, include it but give them the disclaimer.<br>
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3) Sigh and move on.<br>
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* I did <i>once</i> experience something like this, but it wasn’t for pay.<br>
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My freshman year of college, I joined the school newspaper. For my first assignment, they gave me a tidy story involving student-government bureaucracy. The powers that be loved the story. The editor-in-chief personally gave me an atta-boy and offered me another
assignment (about what, I can’t remember). It involved much more research and no quotes. I busted my ass to get it in by deadline – literally running all the way from my dorm to the newspaper office in a windy rainstorm.<br>
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When they ran it, every point was rearranged and graf rewritten so that pretty much not a single word of it was mine. I’m not THAT bad a writer.<br>
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So I said screw this. After all, it was a volunteer/extracurricular thing – not a job.<br>
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When the EIC offered me another assignment, I begged off and told him exactly why.<br>
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SJVN’s right. At least when an editor does that these days, I get paid.<br>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Ipg-smz <ipg-smz-bounces@netpress.org> on behalf of sjvn <sjvn@vna1.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, February 7, 2019 5:24:56 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> ipg-smz@netpress.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Ipg-smz] A question for everyone, particularly Esther Schindler</font>
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<div>On Thu, 2019-02-07 at 17:18 -0500, Carol Pinchefsky wrote:</div>
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<pre>Is it possible to use this as a writing sample when it isn’t actually a sample of my writing? </pre>
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<div>Nope.</div>
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<div>Cash the check and move on.</div>
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