an English question

@dufresne (137)
China
June 4, 2009 10:31am CST
In the sentence "The first part of the list has the usual North American writers and, of course, a good representation of women writers as you would expect.", does "representation" mean "collection" or "description"?
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scarlet_woman
@scarlet_woman (23465)
• United States
4 Jun 09
collection would work,but "a sample of" would be better. for something to be properly represented,you would want several examples of the type.