Some claim that a section of a manuscript, the so-called Alexander fragment, dating from the 11th 12th century and apparently part of a lost poem, is Franco-Provençal in character, but others maintain that it, like other literary texts from the region, is mainly Provençal with some French features.
When deciding on level and type of evidence, it is the methods section of a manuscript that of course proves crucial.
This letter was also preserved in other manuscripts, including a section of a manuscript now in the Bodleian Library as manuscript (MS) Additional A.44.
In both groups, pairs of participants worked together to complete either the Introduction or Discussion section of a manuscript.
For example, if the Results section of a manuscript describes a certain patient outcome, a corresponding block should exist in the Methods section describing how the data describing that outcome was collected, validated, and analyzed.
Each panel members contributed to drafting different sections of the manuscript: A-MD, YP, FP, SR, and BM drafted part I; J-PQ, SL, Y-EC, J-PS, CG-L, MC, and RG drafted part II; and C-EL, NR, J-PB, JP, and CB-B drafted part III.
Indeed, whereas, in other sections of the manuscript a clear effort is made to be didactic for a non specialist reader (which is commendable since Biology Direct is not a specialty journal), I found that this section was incredibly difficult to decipher.
We apologize for the confusion in the organization of the initial sections of the manuscript (see response (a)) to the Reviewing Editor).
It was also aimed at providing a mechanism where sections of the manuscript (text blocks) could be assigned to different specialists.
