by sprocket <bucket@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Jan 14, 2008 at 11:09 AM
Eva wrote:
> The following is part of my master's thesis. Can you help me
> correct my language? The format needn't correcting. Thank you so much.
>
>
Excellent. The only change I would make is to the sentence "The images
of China, as said by Raymond Dawson in The Chinese Chameleon: An Analysis
of European Conceptions of Chinese Civilization, are like a
color-changing chameleon."
That comes across as a bit clumsy, and would be (to my mind) better
turned round to the simpler form, "Raymond Dawson described the image of
China as like a color- changing chameleon in The ..."
JS