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Table 3 Themes emerging from qualitative feedback Comments were collated and grouped into positive and negative feedback, and suggestions for further improvements

From: Understanding Plain English summaries. A comparison of two approaches to improve the quality of Plain English summaries in research reports

 

Author original (n)

Author revised (n)

Independent writer edited (n)

Positive

General positive

34

42

53

Headings useful

0

17

9

Terminology explained

3

5

9

Negative

Jargon/terminology

25

19

12

Title not clear

18

19

23

Insufficient detail

15

11

20

Ambiguous language

15

8

12

Acronyms/abbreviations

8

5

4

Sentence length/structure

8

8

7

Grammar

6

7

3

Desirable

Headings

13

5

1

Less detail

4

0

0

Conclusion

6

6

6