Research and its reporting are also social acts that require you to think steadily about how your work relates to your readers, about the responsibility you have not just toward your subject and yourself, but toward them as well, especially when you believe that you have something to say that is important enough to cause readers to change their lives by changing what and how they think.
About 'especially when...', what part of the sentence in front does it modify? Or does it modify the entire sentence in front?
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All of it, I think.
— Mister Micawber
All of it, I think.
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So it's basically: Research and its reporting are also social acts, especially when you believe that you have something to say that is important enough to cause readers to change their lives by changing what and how they think. not: they require you to think steadily about how your work relates to your readers... especially when you believe that you have something to say that
. [Research and its reporting are also social acts that require you to think steadily about how your work relates to your readers Research and its reporting are also social acts that require you to think steadily about the responsibility you have not just toward your subject and yourself, but toward them as well] especially when...