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Table 1 Sample data for rhetorical unit evaluation.

From: Are figure legends sufficient? Evaluating the contribution of associated text to biomedical figure comprehension

Figure + Associated text

Subject-Generated Text Structured by Rhetorical Units

 

Purpose

Methods

Results

Conclusions

Other Criteria

Fig+L

Effect of pH...

Enzyme kinetics

Hard to say, need detailed fitting data

Don't know

Full text

Fig+L+T+A

The goal of...

X-ray crystallography...

Hydrogen bonds...

RNA binding of protein...

Methods are still lacking

F+Legend+T+A

To show that...

A is just a chart of...

Affinity of TF...

A model for the formation...

How was the final model arrived at (part c)?

  1. Space limitations prevent us from including all the text descriptions for the four rhetorical units. Legend (L), title (T), and abstract (A). The original data are available at http://www.bioex.us.com/evaluation_data/JudgeEvaluation.xml.