The phrase "I am collating" is correct and usable in written English.
It is a phrase used to describe the act of gathering related items together and organizing them in some way. You could use this phrase when you are sorting and gathering data or information for a project. For example: "I am collating the results of the survey so that we can analyze them."
Once, when I was collating a Gould proof, I had the unsettling thought "What if Eleanor ever loses it?" What if all these commas and hyphens and subtleties of usage prove to be the products of a benign delusion?
A Curtin University geology professor and meteorite enthusiast, Phil Bland, has been collating reports of the "daytime fireball".
When you're collating data at work, just collate data at work.
They must then be collated; i.e., the variant readings that they contain must be registered by comparison with some selected form of the text, often a standard printed edition.
The following data were collated: (i) pre-operative: myoma size, number, type and location and medical treatment, (ii) per-operative: operator, blood loss, surgical procedure and operative time, and (iii) post-operative: myoma weight and number, haemoglobin decrease, complications and length of hospital stay.
When the data from arctic and montane-boreal lakes are collated (i.e. alpine lakes excluded), there is a significant linear relationship between 20th century β-diversity and latitude (r = 0.52; p<0.001; n = 37, Fig. 4A).
During a SURE study (i) the current process understanding is collated, then (ii) possible scenarios that pose a threat to the smooth operation of a process on a larger scale are identified and (iii) the likelihood of such a scenario being realised and the severity of its impact are scored.
Chemical and structural data for C-S-H(I) preparations from the literature are collated.
The list goes on and on, and I have emails and handwritten notes that should eventually be collated.
Once printed, the papers are collated and folded automatically.
