Table 1

Sample data for rhetorical unit evaluation.

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)?

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.

Yu et al. Journal of Biomedical Discovery and Collaboration 2009 4:1   doi:10.1186/1747-5333-4-1