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Is this kind of email formal or beneficial to use in a submitted manuscript? [closed]
Is this kind of email formal or beneficial or even acceptable to use in a manuscript: [email protected]? [email protected] or [email protected]? which is better? can it increase the acceptance rate?
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Normalizing other people's data on number of significant figures
I am presenting a table in my paper which summarizes and compares data from other papers. I'd like the data to be presented uniformly, with the same number of significant figures for all data. However,...
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Typographical emphasis on text is ambiguous
I am writing a paper and part of my thesis, and I need some advice to improve the readability of my manuscript(s).
Working in computer science and machine learning, there is a lot of technical stuff ...
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Scientific research paper – how broad should the introduction be?
My research answered a very specific question. But the hypothesis I was testing will also likely have very broad application. I want to make sure to convey that importance in my paper. Is the first ...
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Proper pronoun in a response letter for a single author manuscript
I am currently in the process of responding to reviewer comments for a journal article submission, and I realized I was using the scientific/royal "we" in my response letter, even though I am the only ...
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Plural-active, singular-active or another voice when writing a paper by yourself? [duplicate]
I'm working on a draft paper which will likely have no coauthors. I'm wondering how to phrase my paper, and the abstract especially, in terms of voice. Which of the following should I prefer?
"We ...
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Reporting Results: Active or Passive voice? [duplicate]
I am writing my first publication and I heard a lot of different opinions on the matter of using passive or active voice in publications.
This question focuses in particular on the results.
Should I ...
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How to avoid using "I" in a research paper in case of referring to my previous work?
As I know, using "I" and "we" should be avoided in research paper writing.
But in one of my paper, I am the only one author.
And in the introduction I wrote something like AA et al. proved that ..., ...
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Is it common practice to have a separate "Further Discussion" after the conclusion in an academic article?
I received reviews of my manuscript for IEEE Transactions.
One question from a reviewer, about a common misconception regarding the technology, is interesting but is not relevant anywhere else in the ...
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Using slang in a Scientific Paper
We are writing a paper about an algorithm that takes a group of solutions and sorts them by their likelihood of being equal to the one and only 'good solution'.
Internally, we refer to this 'good ...
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Necessary to state power when using 'billion' in UK publication?
In British English, a billion traditionally had a different meaning to in American English (10^12). In modern writing the American convention has pretty much taken over. Is it therefore okay in a ...
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What is the correct manner to make it clear that your passage is paraphrasing a reference, that itself is refering to another reference?
I'm sure that this must come up a lot when writing papers.
Reference A1 gives a lit review of a field. A passage talks about paper B1, and I summerise B1 also. How do you make it clear in your ...
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The usage of a literally incorrect phrase to simplify the meaning in manuscripts
I am writing a survey paper in computer science, where I frequently use the sentence:
....videos that are taken from uncalibrated monocular moving cameras....
In long sentences, the above phrase ...
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Why older papers are more difficult to read than the new ones?
Skimming through the literature, I find that in theoretical high-energy physics (modern gravitation theories, scalar tensor theories, etc.), older papers are more difficult to read than new papers ...
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