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Never too late to learn: Interpunct
虞左俊 2013-7-4 08:39
Wiki: An interpunct ( · ), also called an interpoint , is apunctuation mark consisting of a dot used for interword separation in ancient Latinscript and in some modern languages as a stand-alone sign inside a word. We use it in math expression, a lot. Howeve ...
个人分类: Scientific Writing|5270 次阅读|没有评论
Another kind of "for the first time"
虞左俊 2013-6-7 10:45
For the first time, I declined to review a manuscript for a journal, based on its abstract. I read the abstract yesterday, and decided to do nothing. I was working on a paper, and thought that I would sit on this decision for a day even though I didn't like what I read in the abstract. ...
个人分类: My Research Interests|3082 次阅读|没有评论
Scientific editing: to speak out, or not
虞左俊 2013-5-24 10:38
I finished editing a new client's manuscript two days ago, but my brain won't quit thinking about it. Why? This is because this paper presents an interesting feature based on solid data. However, I felt one important conclusion was drawn without careful consideration. So, I debated: to spe ...
个人分类: Scientific Writing|2616 次阅读|没有评论
A new adventure, for me
热度 1 虞左俊 2013-5-17 08:17
Translation is what I have tried to avoid. It's not that I don't know how to translation a research paper in Chinese into English; it's the time and energy involved. So far, I have only translated two papers, one for my beloved mentor (for a book that collects his major publications), ...
个人分类: Scientific Translation|2330 次阅读|1 个评论 热度 1
Scientific editing, English editing, copy editing
虞左俊 2013-5-11 15:20
According to (search engine) Bing, scientific editing should be three times as expensive as English editing, while copy editing is a lot cheaper. Scientific editing 14,300 “English editing” 56,740 “Copy editing” 1,540,000 These numbers are probab ...
个人分类: Scientific Writing|3333 次阅读|没有评论
The Chinese are coming...
热度 1 虞左俊 2013-4-15 22:24
First of all, I am Chinese. If you have ever met me, you would know that I have small but sharp eyes. (Recently, I did some proofs and impressed my co-authors with my ability to catch mistakes.) This Blog is about manuscripts written by Chinese. In one week, I was asked by three different jo ...
个人分类: Scientific Writing|3567 次阅读|3 个评论 热度 1

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