Navigating the Peer Review Process 11-19
How to Address Unclear Comments about Your Writing
What you can ask your colleagues and editor Have I made any grammar errors?
What to try if they say yes Reading Hodges’ Harbrace College Handbook Taking an English class Having the paper edited Using spellchecker function of your word-processing program
Comment
Poorly written The English is poor
Have I left out
articles ( the and a )?
Have I used
punctuation incorrectly? Have I made a lot of spelling errors?
Have I used words incorrectly?
Reading a lot of papers Looking up
unfamiliar words in dictionary; asking people what the words mean
Keeping a list of
words you might use and their definitions
Terminology is confusing
What terms are confusing?
Asking what the
correct terms are
Using the same
terms throughout the paper instead of varying them Making sentences an average of 15-20 words long (but not all the same length) Asking what needs to be added and adding it Applying the funnel of knowledge: stating ideas from general to specific
Choppy
Are the sentences too short? Are the sentences too long?
Wordy
Hard to follow
Have I left out ideas?
Did I express the ideas in the wrong order?
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