Chinese scholars are the most prone to these three major problems in writing papers

Generally speaking, the release of scientific research results requires two aspects -that is, the professional ability of originality, scientific and complete results, and the ability to write academic papers, and excellent writing ability can often make up for the lack of professional ability Essence This is why some people can organize seemingly general scientific research results into an excellent academic paper.

However, in the actual situation, many Chinese researchers ignore the training of writing ability. After getting the experimental results, they suffer from how to write down and fully show their research value. DESK Reject, cannot enter the peer review process.

Today, the editor of the ENAGO summarized the three major aspects of Chinese scientific research authors in the writing of thesis writing. I hope that everyone can attract enough attention, and then the most efficient improvement of the dissertation quality and the enhancement rate.

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Structural and accurate expression

Academic papers have a specific paper structure, and each part has its specific functions. A complete paper must usually include title, short title, author list and unit address, abstract, keywords, introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion, conclusions, gratitude, funding statement, conflict of interest, author contribution statement, reference, reference The 16 parts of the literature and appendix. The author must ensure that the structure of the paper is completely covered with all the above contents (or to ensure that the special requirements of the journal are met) and abide by the fixed format of the journal requirements. For specific writing, please refer to the submission guide for each journal.

In addition, the expression of the paper should be clear and concise, and you can remember the following 3 points:

Define the terms clearly and avoid unrelated information

Ensure that the sentence structure is simple and direct

Present all data

For example, the expression of "significant effect" should be avoided as much as possible, but it should be more accurate direct description, such as "significant increase". Or, with the help of more accurate data to quantify the "quantity", for example:

"Chemical x had an effect on metabolism." The result of changing this sentence into a statement will be a lot clear:

"Chemical X Increased Fat Metabolism by 20 Percent."

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Logic demonstration clearly

Clear logic refers to a clear argument, and has a logical relationship between sentences and paragraphs, such as causality, and jointly demonstrate the central argument of articles. Due to long -term lack of sufficient logical training, Chinese researchers often have various logical problems when writing papers. Among them, logical breaks and cycle demonstrations are the most common.

Broken logic means that there is no logical connection between each paragraph, or there is no correlation between the upper and lower sentences, causing readers not to understand the reasoning process. For example, the following cases:

"Statistics found that this largest fruit tree ended 20 fruits. Five researchers in the experimental group analyzed the smallest fruit trees in Figure 300."

The first sentence in this example states the production of fruit trees, and the second sentence states the number of scientific references of fruit trees. Obviously, there is no logical association between the production of fruit trees and the number of scientific research. In the absence of paving, these two sentences are not suitable for strong front and back. The reason for this error is that the author did not think about why he should write a sentence (or the next paragraph) when the sentence (or paragraph) was connected, so that the reader would doubt: "Why do you have to write the number of scientific research drawings after writing the output of fruit trees, ? "

Begging the question or Circular Reasoning, also known as lack of arguments, refers to the arguments that have been repeatedly said in different claims, but do not use facts or detailed reasoning to argument, which can only pile up gorgeous rhetoric, or even entanglement In some terms, they cannot extricate themselves and are caught in text games. Judging from the text alone, it seems that the momentum is like a rainbow, but it is empty and there is nothing substantial. E.g:

"IT is good becape it is not bad.

"It is meaningful to live well, and it is meaningful to live well!"

"The economic landslide of this city is due to the failure of the No. 3 subway line project. If the subway project can succeed, the economy will not deteriorate, and the people's lives will become rich. Therefore, we must do our best Line projects. "—— What is overwhelmed by this passage is a nonsense conclusion that unspeakable nonsense, that is, the failure of economic landslides to the subway project failure, regardless of why a subway project fails will lead to economic landslides in the entire city.

In response to logical errors, it is recommended that the author adopt the top -down system engineering writing method, that is, starting from the core content to expand layer by layer. Write the argument, title, and then write the paragraph framework to effectively avoid the problem of logical breaks and coherent connection between sentences.

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Many Chinese scientific research authors have a misunderstanding: the academic level of the manuscript is covered by everything, and the problem of language expression can be resolved by journal editing. In fact, in the submission stage, if a large number of language errors are filled in the paper (including sentence structure, tense, speech, words, spelling, punctuation, punctuation, etc.), the editor or editor will directly refuse the manuscript. To review the value of scientific research has been rejected. Therefore, it is important to ensure the correctness of English language before submission.

As the author of non -English mother tongue, Chinese authors make the following language errors most often when writing in English:

vocabulary

Proper use: This problem is the most common reason for reviewing and editing to understand the article. The solution is to rely on the online dictionary or corpus, compare more words, and choose the most accurate and appropriate words. In addition, some words often appear in Chinese, but English does not need to be translated by word, such as the word "law".

The verb is wrong: describing the experimental process in the article, it is time to use. The statement of the statement should be used in general. It is generally respected at the time of the study of predecessors. In the past, there were often hints of recognition of its views.

The single -number matching error of the verb and the subject: The single theme should match the single form of the verb.

The lack of crown words, misuse the contemporary words and uncertain crowns (a, an), especially easy to miss the concentration word "the".

Using the first letters without the definition of the full name.

Use a lot of speaking words in written words.

sentence

If the paragraph is long, the sentence is long: not in time, the logic of the article is unclear. Try to adopt a short paragraph and add a small title to the beginning of the joint.

Sentence structure is chaotic: The reason why it is difficult to understand is that the sentence structure is not clear and the predicate verb is missing. When writing, you must follow the verb discount, quickly build the main predicate structure, and then supplement the modified ingredients.

punctuation

Use wrong punctuation symbols: including the character, long horizontal line, reduction number, space, etc., which are particularly easy to make errors.

Positive or oblique body with error symbols: In the text or equation, the upper and lower angle signs of the numbers and symbols should be used in the upper and lower angles, and the physical quantity symbol should be used to use the oblique body. The physical quantity in the signs should be oblique, and the name of the object should be used.

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