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www.alfiechadwick.com www.alfiechadwick.com
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Reported in 2023 to comprise around 45 staff members
Reportedly comprising around 45 staff members in 2023
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www.alfiechadwick.com www.alfiechadwick.com
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looks suspiciously like an em dash to me
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time
for a start? As we know it will do a lot more down the track also.
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Hansard-DB
hyphen or no hyphen?
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liberal
Maybe spell this out - drawing attention to formation of the Liberal Party
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delivery, not text.
not only in the text but delivery.
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produce
Need to check whether colour will be reproduced in journal, or should you use dotted, dash type lines instead?
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—
checked consistency of dash use throughout?
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Tucker et al.
Tucker et al.'s
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parliamentary handbook
Proper title? Should it be capitalised?
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Hansard database,
Use the title that you have given to the database whereever possibe - ie the Hansard DB. And turn some of the sentences about from passive to active voice - eg the Hansard DB did xxx, we did xxx
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SQL
As above
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API
Remind the reader of these acronyms
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Italicise
Italicised
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para
paragraph
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interjecting
consistent with use of single or double quote marks?
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requited
required
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a draft form published within hours of a parliamentary sitting (Parliamentary Education Office, n.d.). Members of Parliament may suggest factual corrections to proofs (such as names or historical details), but may not alter the meaning or content of proceedings. After corrections, the final official Hansard replaces the proof version, typically around two weeks later (Parliamentary Education Office, n.d.).
Could this go up higher into the section describing what, how and who Hansard is produced?
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parliament
are you being consistent in the way you capitalise parliament/Parliament?
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parsers
and what's a 'parser'?
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parsing pipeline
And this - what's a parsing pipeline?
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custom scrapers
every term like this needs a short clause telling what you are talking about. What is a custom scraper?
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debate
A sentence or two in here restating why - despite all this - a proper Hansard DB is important, and the insights that it is likely to deliver about democracy etc that current databases miss.
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speech
communication
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face
Islamic face veil
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not just missing context, but missing entire modalities of expression.
missing not just context, but entire modalities of expression
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Reported in 2023 to be around 45 staff members (Coleman 2023), the Hansard reporters and editors collectively determine what appears in the record.
Move to above?
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changes
change
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peole
people
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stragglers
parlkiamentarians
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cannot
does not
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editing process is the removal of repetition
By whom? Perhaps gather some of the info you have below on the role of the Hansard team - how many, how they work etc - up here. Also watch the passive voice. You use it extensively from here on in, and get the subject back in to sentences wherever you can - eg the Hansard edits do xxx, the Hansard DB does xxx, We do xxx.
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Some MPs even resist greater recording and scrutiny, arguing elected representatives to exercise judgement, not to perform for cameras (Smith 2018).
A little unclear. Are you saying that 'Some MPs resist the performance element of parliament, urging other elected representatives to exercie judgement, and not just perform for cameras - although this stance in itself could be deemed performative.'
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staged
staged for
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media coverage and public consumption
Yes, but also to reassert their leadership internally and externally, for example, and to frame importnat debates for their own party membership and opposition members.
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perception
Perhaps a little all encompassing, as parliamentary business is also about legislating, framing legislation for future legal judgements, recording law making etc.
Plus, here and throughout this full section, you need to keep reminding the reader why your work in developing the Hansard DB is important and will provide insights for democracy. it gets a little lost here, for exmaple, potentially leaving the reader to think it is unimportnat.
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swiftly punished
Taken outside and beaten with a stick? Beheaded? better provide an exmaple clause - for example, by ....
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sessions
During these Question Times...
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public
Need a sentence in here along the lines of "State and Territory level parliaments operate independently of their federal counterpart.'
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Parliament
Australia's Federal Parliament
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Introduction
Great Intro, really hate this editing software...
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The rest of this paper is structured as follows. The Background Section provides necessary context on the Australian parliamentary system and explores how Hansard is constructed as a textual artefact. The Method Section details the pipeline for transforming raw Hansard XML into a relational database, including the automated validation procedures and key design decisions. The Results demonstrates the database’s utility through corpus statistics and query examples. Finally, the discussion explores the possible uses of this resource, and the limitations of its interpretation.
check caps and subject-verb agreement for consistency in this para - eg Background Section - discussion, results demonstrate...
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from the outset
delete
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address
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position
portfolio
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technically accessible
publicly available
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