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Anonymous Posted 21 years ago
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I hope you can help me with this sentence, my question is; is the ; , and - correct
During my dissertation I developed my interviewing skills further(;) I constructed an interview protocol, conducted and transcribed six one(-)hour(-)long semi-structured interviews and analysed this textual data in accordance with Grounded Theory.
During my dissertation I developed my interviewing skills further(;) I constructed an interview protocol, conducted and transcribed six one(-)hour(-)long semi-structured interviews and analysed this textual data in accordance with Grounded Theory.
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Ok that looked pretty weird. Let's try again. I developed my interviewing skills further; I constructed an interview protocol, conducted and transcribed one-hour semi-structured interviews and analysed the data in accordance with Grounded Theory.
- Ok that looked pretty weird.
- Let's try again.
- I developed my interviewing skills further; I constructed an interview protocol, conducted and transcribed one-hour semi-structured interviews and analysed the data in accordance with Grounded Theory.
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Ok that looked pretty weird. Let's try again.
I developed my interviewing skills further; I constructed an interview protocol, conducted and transcribed one-hour semi-structured interviews and analysed the data in accordance with Grounded Theory.
I developed my interviewing skills further; I constructed an interview protocol, conducted and transcribed one-hour semi-structured interviews and analysed the data in accordance with Grounded Theory.
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It looks fine. Options which I myself would exercise are (1) replacing the semicolon with a full colon ( : ) and (2) placing a comma after interviews (this is called for if the 'listed' items are sufficiently long or convoluted).
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