Help With Grammar!!

[ilovemarkb]

According to (Welch 2008, p336) patient’s fears may arise from ...............


question Patient's or patients'

thankyou kind abbers ! xxx

[boxtops]

Good for the grey matter, too! :-0

[factor-fiction]

Hi annemollie, I disagree with the suggestion that there should be a comma after 'According to'. As DTcrossword fan says, the comma should be after the brackets.

According to Welch (2008, p336), patients' fears may arise from ...............

[abstibus]

Factor
I said that at 18.30, but maybe muddied the waters by not giving the full clause in a later answer.

[factor-fiction]

Sorry annemollie- I didn't see your later post clarifying what you'd meant until after I'd submitted mine.

[abstibus]

Good we're all agreed.

[Prudie]

Well I don't agree there should be anything after the brackets BUT the contents of the bracket is a separate clause and you should still be able to write the sentence without it - in your case that wouldn't make sense:
According to patients' fears may arise from...
I'd leave out the brackets

[MarkRae]

> According to patients' fears may arise from...

That makes no sense at all!

[Prudie]

That's what I was saying Mark

[RATTER15]

I think you are all wrong!! but what would I know I have sexdaily, sorry I meant dyslexia. fcuk!

[factor-fiction]

I think that was Prudie's point Mark.

[carrust]

I think this is a known unknown LOL

[boxtops]

that's why we've taken out the parentheses, mark....

[abstibus]

Prudie
She is citing Welch, so she has to include the reference to his/her work in brackets with the name and the year.

[factor-fiction]

There will be a requirement to include the information contained in the brackets, Prudie.

[boxtops]

Correct, but the name shouldn't be in the brackets, just the date of publication/page etc.

[Prudie]

Is that how it's done then with brackets?
I'd have put
According to Welch 2008, p336, patients'..

[abstibus]

Hence the introductory clause: 'According to...'
Can't be bothered to type the rest!

[Delaval]

People have been hanged because a comma was in the wrong place.

[boxtops]

Yes prudie, the (2008, p.336) is the reference to Welch's particular publication, which will be listed in full detail in ILB's references at the back of her piece of work.

[factor-fiction]

ilovemarkb is probably expected to follow the Harvard referencing system.
http://libweb.anglia.ac.uk/referencing/harvard.htm