The phrase "authors contention" is not correct as it is missing an apostrophe.
It should be "author's contention." You can use it when discussing the main argument or position taken by a specific author in a text or piece of writing.
Example: "In her article, the author's contention is that climate change is the most pressing issue of our time."
Alternatives: "author's argument" or "author's position."
The most pressing point here is related to the authors' contention that Trichoplax represents an ancestral eukaryotic genome and therefore its repeat content can be understood to resemble that of the earliest eukaryotes.
"We would strongly disagree with the authors' contention," Ms. Moran said.
Add to that the fact that models of female psychological development are for the most part male, and the authors' contention that "we have been overlooked" appears to be well founded.
Consistent with the authors' contention that nondeterministic simulations are needed in many validation comparisons, a three-step statistical approach is offered for incorporating experimental uncertainties into the computational analysis.
Of course, it is the authors' contention that Las Vegas itself is emblematic of something larger: what they call in this tendentious and often hysterical book "a pervasive and swelling American corruption," the "glorification of mass taste and tastelessness, aspiration, delusion, despair, a glossy if coarse mercenary despotism".
Yet in the book's homespun simplicity, it adopts a shrill tone and then gallops past important and nuanced arguments that, if addressed, would have strengthened the authors' contention that the banking system needs to hold a lot more capital than it does at the moment.Start with tone.
Other authors in contention for the prestigious award include J.M. Coetzee, Ottessa Moshfegh and Ian McGuire.
The authors' main contention is that rather than democratic institutions, the "underlying political settlement" determines political or economic outcomes.
The 1970s is as contemporary as it gets for the children's authors in contention for this year's Carnegie medal, the UK's oldest and most prestigious children's book award.
Authors in Contention Three Americans novelists are among the six finalists for the $57,000 Orange Prize for fiction by women writing in English, the organizers announced yesterday in London.
The six shortlisted authors in contention for this year's Man Booker Prize have been announced.
