Recently, I received a review of a scientific article suggesting that I corrected grammatical errors such as “we observed” and “we evaluated”. First I thought these expressions were in the same sentence, but no. And no credible software pointed those expressions as...
Researchers make science. And behind that science is a story. If we looked into one’s publications, would we see a list or that story? Are there different types of stories? You may think science is impersonal, but nothing could be farther from the truth. On the...
“Why do we take so long to produce so little?” Have you ever asked yourself this question? I have. Numerous times. And I think this often occurs in scientific writing, especially in the results and discussion section which demands creative thinking. That...
What do you feel when you receive the comments from reviewers of an article you submitted, and they ask for major revisions? What if you feel their comments show a weak reading of your work? Most of us feel upset and demotivated. I understand and experience the same...
In a previous post about using word count as a method to improve the flow of your scientific writing, I suggested that looking at the right number of words in Abstracts, which is around 250, it’s almost like a blog post. Thus, if we think about Abstracts like blog...
