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I am writing a research paper in English. I am not sure whether the following sentence is correct or not:

This paper presents a clustering framework by iteratively performing two stages.

I feel (though cannot explain why) that the "by" part is awkward. I feel the following is more natural:

This paper presents a clustering framework performing two stages iteratively.

Can you give me an advice which one is better? Or is the first sentence all right?

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  • Can you add some background information about the clustering framework to your question? That will help someone write a more useful answer.
    – Ben Kovitz
    Commented Jun 4, 2017 at 20:48
  • Neither sentence makes any sense. How can a paper perform two stages? Two stages of what? Is "clustering framework" a technical term? If so, from what field of endevour?
    – David42
    Commented Aug 7, 2017 at 15:58

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The meaning of the sentence is not clear to me. Are YOU iteratively performing two stages? Does the paper perform stages? Does the framework?

Since I don't know how a person or paper would iteratively perform two stages, I am assuming it's the framework that performs them. In that case, you might want to say:

This paper presents a clustering framework that iteratively performs two stages.

If I have your meaning wrong, please advise and I'll be glad to change my response.

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  • As far as I know advice is the noun. You should have written advise.
    – SovereignSun
    Commented Aug 7, 2017 at 15:16
  • Sorry for the typo - you are of course correct. I'll correct my answer.
    – fool4jesus
    Commented Aug 7, 2017 at 21:22

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