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Example 38- Graduate science student

A graduate student from biomedical engineering

Source text:

Faster runners maintained higher stride rates and lengths throughout the race and made greater use of a non-RFS pattern at the end of the race compared with the slower finishers.” – (abstract)

Source:

Kasmer ME, Wren JJ, Hoffman MD. Foot strike pattern and gaits changes during a 161-km ultramarathon. J Strength Cond Res. 2013. doi:10.1519/JSC.0000000000000282.

Writer’s text:

Commercially, GA is also offered as an assessment tool of athletic performance by identifying locomotive inefficiencies(p.1)

Writer’s comment:

I got it from PubMed. Kasmer. So these papers are usually searched through our database PubMed. So the conclusion of the study was “Faster runners …”, so I am basically just generalizing it by saying it is used to assess “locomotive inefficiencies”… So in this case the topic is specific about marathon runners but I am generalizing to become athletic performance because that’s too detailed for the context that I present for the readers. So for that particular reference that [it is]  generalized the entire study in one sentence, just to provide an example to support what I am saying… Again to generalize it. … they are talking about “foot strike patterns” and I’ve changed it to inefficiencies.