Dividing up long sentences: 1



Divide up these sentences into more manageable and shorter sentences that will help the reader understand the content better. You may need to rearrange the word order and / or delete unnecessary words.

1. Using automatic translation software (e.g. Google Translate, Babel fish, and Systran) can considerably ease the work of researchers when they need to translate documents thus saving them money (for example the fee they might have otherwise had to pay to a professional translator) and increasing the amount of time they have to spend in the laboratory rather than at the computer.

2. In order to establish a relationship between document length and level of bureaucracy in European countries and to confirm whether documents, such as reports regarding legislative and administrative issues, vary substantially in length from one language to another, we conducted an analysis of A, B and C.

3. The aim of our study was to assess changes in the level of tolerance of natives of one country towards immigrants over the course of a 50-year period in order to be able to advise governmental agencies on how to develop strategies based on those countries that have been more successful in reducing racism as already investigated in previous studies, but not in such a systematic way, and to establish correlations with data from the USA, which until now have been reported only sporadically.

4. Monolithic sorbent tip technology has proved to be efficient in removing interferences from copper and mercury salts, but it has not been tested for other materials and the recovery of proteinaceous material is often too small, giving rise to analysis problems.

5. Our results show that the performance of the system, in terms of throughput and delay, depends on several factors including the frame duration, the mechanisms for requesting uplink bandwidth, and the load partitioning, i.e. the way traffic is distributed, connections, and traffic sources within each connection.

 

Writing short sentences: 1

Write five or six sentences about the research you are currently carrying out. If you have not started your research, imagine that you have. Write short sentences, as in the example below:

We investigated the meaning of life.

We used four different methodologies.

Each methodology gave contradictory results.

The results confirmed previous research indicating that we understand absolutely nothing.

Future research will investigate something more simple – the cerebral life of a PhD student.

 

Removing individual redundant words

In each of the sentences below there is one redundant word. Find the redundant word and delete it, as in first sentence.

1. One suitable method is to separate the men from the women.

2. Dynamism and velocity are typical characteristics of this species.

3. Their head office is located in London.

4. If there is water present in the system, this may cause rust.

5. The results obtained highlight that x = y.

6. We have made an advance plan for the project.

7. We have seen from actual experience that this solution is not effective.

8. Another possible approach is to calculate P before Q.

9. Chemical reactions between organic materials and pigments lead to discoloration phenomena.

10. Our research activity consists of x and y.

 

Removing several redundant words: 1

Each of the sentences below contains words or phrases that can be deleted without requiring any other changes. Delete such words and phrases.

The solution adopted was to carry out a test of all the software on the market.

1. As we have already noted in Section 4.2.1, the presence of x can influence y.

2. However, we have to make use of other techniques.

3. Paint samples, as described previously, normally contain mixtures of different substances.

4. In comparative terms, there is no real difference between x and y.

5. Also, we present simulation results that will provide a twofold contribution: (1) confirm the effectiveness of …, and (2) highlight the importance of …

6. The document was written in the English language and the contents represent a new innovation in the sector of telecommunications.

7. In our documents, we only use the Track Changes functionality for revisions.

8. Rows and also cells are highlighted in different colors in order to give a more effective view.

9. We identified a number of key factors that might affect, at least in principle, the performance.

10. They have shown that we should also consider the possibility of doing the testing in advance.

11. It is important to note that one plus one is equal to two.

12. In general, it has been established that the phenomenon of e-commerce is often characterized by the absence of a direct contact between seller and buyer [Mugandi, 2016].

13. In particular, the scope of this section is to show the strengths of …

14. Most of the organic materials that can be encountered in a painting are characterised by a macromolecular nature.

15. The use of this method is recommended in all cases where x = y.

 


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