: Re: Is elaborating the opposite case in brackets acceptable and clear? Is Sentence A an acceptable and clear way of shortening Sentence B? Sentence A: A firm outperforms (underperforms) the

@Gonzalez219

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It is acceptable, this kind of thing is done often in academic papers (to save space, there is often a page-limit in journal articles); but (B) is more clear than (A), that is probably why it was written that way.

Unless saving a handful of words is very important, stick with (B).

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