Honest Diglot Groupie United States Joined 5319 days ago 89 posts - 92 votes Speaks: Arabic (Gulf)*, English
| Message 1 of 8 09 December 2010 at 4:35am | IP Logged |
Hello, I've two quick questions:
1) I would like to include in the middle of my paper some data; should i write: Data Extracted 1, 2, etc; or Data Extract 1, 2, 3, etc.
2) If a paper written by two authors where should i put the apostrophe a or b:
a: Tom's and Susan's (2000) method is..
b: Tom and Susan's (2000) method is.
Thank you'll :)
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genini1 Senior Member United States Joined 5469 days ago 114 posts - 161 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Mandarin, Japanese
| Message 2 of 8 09 December 2010 at 5:36am | IP Logged |
1) I would have to see the actual sentence to correct it but neither of those sound right as is.
2) Tom and Susan's is the one you are looking for.
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Honest Diglot Groupie United States Joined 5319 days ago 89 posts - 92 votes Speaks: Arabic (Gulf)*, English
| Message 3 of 8 09 December 2010 at 5:44am | IP Logged |
Thanks!
For the first one there is no a sentence just that phrase. It is a subtitle!
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GREGORG4000 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5524 days ago 307 posts - 479 votes Speaks: English*, Finnish Studies: Japanese, Korean, Amharic, French
| Message 4 of 8 09 December 2010 at 6:08am | IP Logged |
Maybe "extracted data"?
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J S Newbie Netherlands Joined 5106 days ago 25 posts - 31 votes Studies: Irish, English* Studies: French, Dutch
| Message 5 of 8 09 December 2010 at 9:40am | IP Logged |
Honest wrote:
Hello, I've two quick questions:
1) I would like to include in the middle of my paper some data; should i write: Data Extracted 1, 2, etc; or Data Extract 1, 2, 3, etc. |
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In my opinion, "data extracted" is a sentence: data as subject, extracted as verb. "Data extract" is a noun indicating a portion of data taken from a larger set.
Best of luck with your paper.
-J.S.
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newyorkeric Diglot Moderator Singapore Joined 6380 days ago 1598 posts - 2174 votes Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Mandarin, Malay Personal Language Map
| Message 6 of 8 09 December 2010 at 1:19pm | IP Logged |
The confusing part is Extract/Extracted. What do you mean by that?
Edited by newyorkeric on 09 December 2010 at 1:19pm
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Honest Diglot Groupie United States Joined 5319 days ago 89 posts - 92 votes Speaks: Arabic (Gulf)*, English
| Message 7 of 8 09 December 2010 at 3:41pm | IP Logged |
J S wrote:
Honest wrote:
Hello, I've two quick questions:
1) I would like to include in the middle of my paper some data; should i write: Data Extracted 1, 2, etc; or Data Extract 1, 2, 3, etc. |
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In my opinion, "data extracted" is a sentence: data as subject, extracted as verb. "Data extract" is a noun indicating a portion of data taken from a larger set.
Best of luck with your paper.
-J.S. |
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Thanks! So I understand that the correct one is "data extracted".
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Honest Diglot Groupie United States Joined 5319 days ago 89 posts - 92 votes Speaks: Arabic (Gulf)*, English
| Message 8 of 8 09 December 2010 at 3:42pm | IP Logged |
newyorkeric wrote:
The confusing part is Extract/Extracted. What do you mean by that? |
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It is a common phrase in academic papers means: taken.
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