job interview question: ethical issues about portfolio

[ICorrino -at- cs -dot- com]

Hello,

I'm updating my portfolio for a job interview, and I'm curious as to whether 
anyone has any opinions on the following-

I'm an editor, and of course I'm including recent editing samples in my 
portfolio. At my last company, I did much of my editing electronically using 
Microsoft Word. I don't know whether list members are familiar with this 
feature, but when you edit electronically, you highlight the text you want to 
comment on, and Word inserts a number, like a footnote, to the bottom right 
of the highlighted text. If the writer wants to view your comment, he or she 
runs the mouse over the highlighted text and Word opens a little window 
showing the comment. Or the writer can look at the end of the document, where 
Word lists all the numbered comments in order. So, when you print out the 
edited document, basically it prints a document that looks just as it did 
when the author handed it to you, with a lot of little numbers inserted at 
the relevant points, and all the editors' comments at the end.

I personally think that when you're putting together a hardcopy portfolio, a 
better way to showcase your editing is to do so with hardcopy edits. That way 
the person reviewing the work can see all at once what the writer did and 
what the editor suggested, without having to flip back and forth. The issue 
for me is that most of my recent editing was done electronically.

So the question is this: Would it be unethical for me to create a hardcopy 
sample based on the electronic edits? I wouldn't be adding any new comments 
or changing any of the comments -- they'd be exactly what I handed to the 
writer. They would just be presented differently. If people do think this is 
unethical, could the problem be solved by including a note at the beginning 
of the sample explaining that the edits were originally done electronically 
and were then transcribed onto a hardcopy?

On a related note -- I think I know the answer to this, but I'm just curious 
as to other people's opinions -- is it permissable to add new comments to 
editing sample? In other words, is it okay if, when assembling your 
portfolio, you come across some error you missed at the time, to correct it? 
Or should the portfolio represent your work exactly as you did it for the 
company? I tend to think it's not okay to make such changes, but one of my 
managers at my last job surprised me by saying he thinks it's acceptable. 
What do people think of this?

Thanks for any input  !

Irulan

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