(10) Connecting Your Ideas

连接你的要点 Highlights from Chapter 5  in <<The Craft of Scientific Writing>> by Michael Alley While each sentence conveys one idea, a paragraph conveys a group of linked ideas. 1. Begin each new sentence in a way that connects with the one before. When you connect ideas in science, the types of connections will naturally change […]

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(8) Grammar

语法 Highlights from Appendix A in <<The Craft of Scientific Writing>>  by Michael Alley Not understanding what defines a sentence leads to major grammatical errors such as a fragment and run-on sentence. Such errors not only cause the audience to reread the passage, but also undermine the author’s credibility. 1. A sentence contains a subject

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(7) Avoiding Ambiguity

科技论文写作中的避免歧义 Highlights from Chapter 3 in <<The Craft of Scientific Writing>>  by Michael Alley 1. An ambiguity is a word, phrase, or sentence that readers can interpret in more than one way. Example: The solar collector worked well under passing clouds. 2. Ambiguities are difficult to catch on first drafts when your focus is on

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(6) Ten ways to write the advantage of laboratory experiments

撰写室内实验的十大优势 1. The advantage of laboratory experiments over field studies lies in the controlled initial and boundary conditions and in the high precision of the measurement of all relevant parameters and variables needed. 2. Compared to natural processes, the advantage of laboratory experiments is that these two parameters can be decoupled. 3. The advantage of laboratory

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(5) Ten ways to write the advantage of numerical simulations

撰写数值模拟的十大优势 1. … are extremely difficult to observe experimentally, even given today’s sophisticated … measurements. The advantage of numerical simulations, on the other hand, lies in the wealth of detailed information on … 2. The advantage of numerical simulations is that they allow monitoring of all … its responses to … in three dimensions over full … 3. The advantage of numerical simulations is given

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(4) How to avoid desk rejection

如何避免文章送审前直接拒稿In general, editors reject between 20% and 50% of the articles submitted to journals before they are even sent for peer-review, and the Top 1 reason for rejection without review is poor language.Here are eight ways to look at your manuscript before submission to avoid desk rejection, through the eyes of an experienced editor.1. Title issue 

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(3) Adjectives, adverbs, and conjunctions in Scientific Writing

科学写作中的形容词、副词和连词 Adjectives are used to modify nouns and to ascribe properties to the subject or object of a clause, whereas adverbs are used to modify all parts of texts except nouns. Although, in general, few adjectives and adverbs should be used in scientific writing to avoid fluff and keep the text short and easy to

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