The following revision is taken from the dissertation of a Chinese-speaking student of Education

Original	Revisions
According to Borg and Gall (1989) summarise the characteristics of socio-anthropological paradigm as follow:	1. According to Borg and Gall (1989), the characteristics of the socio-anthropological paradigm are as follows:
	2. Borg and Gall (1989) summarise the characteristics of the socio-anthropological paradigm as follows:

The original sentence shows what is in my experience the commonest form of syntactic blending in student writing (and occasionally in mine, too): the sentence opens with a noun phrase (here, 'Borg and Gall (1989)') in oblique case (ie it is within a preposition phrase functioning as an adverbial): the blend occurs when the sentence continues as if the noun phrase were the subject of the sentence. The direction of the blend appears to be always from oblique to subject, and never in the other direction: in the texts that students bring to me I have yet to see a sentence opening with a noun phrase apparently intended to be the subject, which subsequently gets treated as if it were part of an adverbial. In other words, I do not find blends such as:

Borg and Gall (1989), the characteristics of the socio-anthropological paradigm are as follows:

Both revisions contain two further corrections: the change of 'as follow' to 'as follows' and the insertion of 'the' in the noun phrase 'socio-anthropological paradigm. That second point will be dealt with in Kibbitzer 48.