<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">The bottom line is… Is is a sample of your writing? If you were approaching a new-to-you editor and wanted to show off what you were capable of, would this be such an example? It might be, if you were in a conversation where you could say, “This is me, except for the lede that an editor rewrote.” All of us have been there, as you can see. It’s apt to make you bond with the editor rather than be a turn off. But do think it through for specific cases.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Alan’s example is so perfect that I regularly refer to some editing processes as “Alan’s cheeseburger.” We all need macros in our lives.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 7, 2019, at 3:18 PM, Carol Pinchefsky <<a href="mailto:will_edit_for_food@mac.com" class="">will_edit_for_food@mac.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="font-family: GoudyOldStyleT-Regular; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">A few months ago, I wrote an article for the blog of the Society for Neuroscience. At long last, it came out today.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br style="font-family: GoudyOldStyleT-Regular; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br style="font-family: GoudyOldStyleT-Regular; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><a href="https://www.brainfacts.org/Neuroscience-in-Society/Tech-and-the-Brain/2019/Video-games-may-enhance-skills-beyond-a-superb-double-jump-020619" style="font-family: GoudyOldStyleT-Regular; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">https://www.brainfacts.org/Neuroscience-in-Society/Tech-and-the-Brain/2019/Video-games-may-enhance-skills-beyond-a-superb-double-jump-020619</a><br style="font-family: GoudyOldStyleT-Regular; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br style="font-family: GoudyOldStyleT-Regular; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: GoudyOldStyleT-Regular; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">The problem? The first four paragraphs aren’t mine. My intro was completely sliced off and rewritten. As it happens, the rewrite isn’t bad. It’s just not...me.</span><br style="font-family: GoudyOldStyleT-Regular; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br style="font-family: GoudyOldStyleT-Regular; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: GoudyOldStyleT-Regular; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Is it possible to use this as a writing sample when it isn’t actually a sample of my writing?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br style="font-family: GoudyOldStyleT-Regular; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>