Acknowledgment and Personal Statement

Acknowledgment and Personal Statement, the selection of material in the examples and schemes does not reflect priority, importance, or generality. It was beyond our capacity to systematically survey the many examples that exist for most reaction types, and the examples included are those that came to our attention through literature searches and reviews. 

If you are writing your paper about President John F. Kennedy, it might be important for you to include his personal statements about his final days in the White House. Maybe, he mentioned privately to one of his aids just before his assassination that he was worried about security. Perhaps, he had been warned about his trip to Dallas beforehand, and in a speech to White House staff, he acknowledged security worries. With strong confidence though, he vowed to undertake a trip that could mean danger. Direct quotations and statements from experts—witnesses who were alive at the time. 

The investigator should prepare the statement rather than have the interviewee write out a personal statement. The interviewee may intentionally or inadvertently leave out key information. The interviewee is given the statement and time to read the statement and make corrections before acknowledging the statement as a true reflection of his or her comments. Interview notes are always retained. 

Acknowledgements All statements made in this text reflect the author s personal professional opinion and are not an expression of the Food Packaging Forum Foundation s views. 

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