: Re: APA Formatting - Changing Adjectives in a quote Should I change "our" to "their" in this quote? If so, how? As stated in their 2011 Annual Report, Siemens’ identity and corporate culture is

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Knowing nothing about APA formatting, I would say that the material in quotes should stay quoted — use "our," since it's a direct quote which you immediately cite. I don't see a reason to change the actual quote, and your summary in the previous sentence uses "their" correctly in context.

There are contexts where you'd change our to [their] with the straight brackets, or use [sic] to indicate a mistake in the original quote, but this is fine as it stands.

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