英文论文投稿前的经典28个细节检查

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1、CHECKLISTTOUSEBEFORESUBMITTINGAPAPERTOAJOURNAL　Haveyou--------------?1spellcheckedthewholepaper?2rewrittenyourpaperatleastthreetimes?3stoppedworkingonyourpaperforaday?Toseeandhearyourwordsbetterwhenyoulookatitagain.4putyourmainpointintoyourtitle?5putyourmostsignificantfindingsfirst?Yourgoldfirst?6ma

2、deiteasyforreaderstotellfromyourtitleandyourabstractwhatisnewandimportantaboutyourwork?7madesureallyourverbsandsubjectsmatch?Pluralverbshavepluralsubjects?Singularverbshavesingularsubjects?8spelledthesamenameexactlythesamewaythroughoutyourpaper?NOT“Bragg....Brag”BUTBRAGGeverytime!9askedafriendoranat

3、iveEnglishspeakertoreadyourpaperandtellyouwhat’sconfusingorunclear?10changednounstoadjectiveswhennecessary?NOT“threedimensionorderedarray”BUT“threedimensionalorderedarray”11usedactiveverbsratherthanpassiveverbsasmuchaspossible?NOT“Theeffectswereinvestigated...”BUT“Weinvestigatedtheeffects”12foundawa

4、ytobreakasentencethat’smuchtoolong(over4lines)intotwosentences?13brokenupaparagraphthatiswaytoolongintotwoparagraphs?14triedtoreduceyourpapertoitsskeletonbymakingaonepageoutlineofit?Mighthelpyouseeifyourpaperisorganizedinthebestpossibleway.15Madeallequivalentitemslookthesame?NOT“scheme1....Scheme2”B

5、UT“Scheme1...Scheme2”16removedallcontractions,suchas“can’t”or“couldn’t”?andchangedthemto“cannot”or“couldnot”?17checkedthecolumnsofnumbersinyourTablesandmadeallthedecimalpointsinthesamecolumnlineupvertically?18putanounrightafter“this”or“these”everytimeyouuseoneofthosewords?19moved“however”awayfromthe

6、beginningofsentencestoaspotlaterinasentencewhereitsoundsbetter?20madeallyourabbreviationsthesame?NOT48hrs3hours2hfivehBUT48h3h2h5h21usedstrongdefinitewords?NOT“Wehavebeeninterestedin”BUT“Wehavefocusedon”22usedparallelwordingwhereyouleadyourreaderstoexpectit?NOT“notonlyforfabricating..butalsoforreduc

7、tion”BUT“notonlyforfabricating...butalsoforreducing...”OR“notonlyfortheformationof...butalsofortheeliminationof..“Don’tmixwordsendingin“ing”with“ion”words.23proofreadyourpaper3times?Atleast!24readyour