The phrase "an extract of text" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a portion or excerpt taken from a larger body of written work, such as a book, article, or document.
Example: "In her research paper, she included an extract of text from a famous novel to illustrate her point."
Alternatives: "a passage from text" or "an excerpt from text."
Interpretation from the authors of included studies is indicated by the extract of text in plain font followed by the reference number and page number.
One will involve the student being asked about an extract of a legal text that they have been given in advance, and the other is more "free form", in which students are asked to consider scenarios.
When working with a short extract of a fiction text, it helps to look closely at the language choices to work out the themes.
p. 348, Mr. Thiselton Dyer gives an extract from Sachs's "Text-book of Botany" to the effect that no change is produced in the colour of flowers by growing them in the dark.
Computer experiments were performed on a randomly chosen extract of the CETEN-Folha text corpus, and the results showed the percentage of correctly syllabified words of 99%.
An effective algorithm for extracting cues of text styles is proposed in this paper.
Sections of text were extracted verbatim and entered into primary charts for each BCT by SP (an extract from a primary chart is given in Additional file 1: Table S1).
JD read all downloaded notes and manually extracted sections of text that were relevant to the two aims of the study, which were then transferred into an Excel spreadsheet for analysis.
Carried out by psychologists David Comer Kidd and Emanuele Castano, it gave participants extracts of texts by writers such as Danielle Steel or Gillian Flynn, identifying these as "genre" fiction, or extracts of more "literary" works, then analysing how accurately readers could identify emotions in others.
A hacker, Labba, and his buddies have cracked the Kindle's ebook DRM, essentially allowing folks to extract the text of Amazon's AZW files into a PDF for viewing on any reader.
If we hit a web page with a Flash movie on it, we just extract the text out of it and index that text.
