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Should we use choosing or choice in the sentence below?

You may find that engaging the required range of participants requires traveling to participants' home or workplace, at times of their choosing/choice.

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Both are fine, but in practice at a time of your choosing is more common than at a time of your choice. Any supposed difference in grammaticality or meaning is spurious, imho. – FumbleFingers Nov 25 '12 at 18:59
It's simply a matter of parallel construction. It would be also perfectly fine to say You may find that to engage the required range of participants will require your to travel to the participants' home or workplace at a time of their choice. – Jim Nov 25 '12 at 19:02

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Both are correct, with choosing functioning as a gerund.

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