Writing and Publishing Scientific Articles
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Problems
▪ This graph is cluttered and unreadable. Information is obscured by the amount of raw data.
▪ The data-point symbols (squares, circles, etc.) are not defined.
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The y-axis is not labeled. #6 What's Wrong
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Figure 16. Serum concentrations of X in seven men treated with Y for 15 weeks.
Solutions
▪ The graph’s message has been clarified by presenting the data a s means with standard deviations, which also solved the problem of the undefined data-point symbols. The legend explains the error bars.
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A y-axis label has been added.
Figure 16. Mean serum concentrations of X in seven men treated with Y for 15 weeks. Error bars represent standard deviations.
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