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Effective Writing, with Examples (1)
虞左俊 2010-5-24 09:02
I. Consistency a) Sequence of tenses Example: After the experiment was finished, data are collected for analysis. Correction: After the experiment was finished, data were collected for analysis. b) Shift of pronoun Example: If you want to improve your E ...
个人分类: Scientific Writing|3097 次阅读|没有评论
Do you have Plan B?
虞左俊 2010-5-22 11:07
For a student who wants to enter a graduate program at a particular research institute, or under a particular (well-known) scientist, things sometimes dont go as planned. Neil was lucky, who eventually 《玩进科学院》. Yes, he worked hard, and he is very ...
个人分类: Education|4624 次阅读|1 个评论
英文写作讲座信息 (location: 海洋局一所 in Qingdao)
虞左俊 2010-5-22 00:32
海洋 局 一所、海大、海洋所,各位同仁: 海洋 局 一所 定于6月21日(周一)9:00am 在海洋局一所科研楼八楼会议室举办英文写作的讲座,欢迎各位派学生参加。讲座信息如下 Zuojun Yu, a Honolulu-based freelance English editor, will give two one-hour-long lectures on sci ...
个人分类: Scientific Writing|3838 次阅读|2 个评论
How to insert symbols in MS Word 2007 (revised)
虞左俊 2010-4-12 07:34
You may say this is trivial, and it is once you have learned how to do it. I see various versions of C for temperature and N for latitude; some are pretty, what can I say, ugly looking (for the lack of beautiful words ...
个人分类: Scientific Writing|3454 次阅读|2 个评论
How to improve one’s English (1): reading, reading, and more reading
虞左俊 2010-1-4 09:53
If you ask me how I became an English editor, I would first tell you about my two great English teachers in China. I was admitted by the Shandong College of Oceanography (now Ocean University of China) as a student of Class 77, with mixed ages from 16 to ...
个人分类: Scientific Writing|4168 次阅读|2 个评论
How to eliminate a bottleneck in English journal publication (2)
虞左俊 2009-10-16 03:38
Please skip the first two paragraphs, if you have read Part one. I recently learned from a journal editor that 稿件的编辑加工是一个bottleneck. Since I have been involved in journal publication for more than 15 years, first as an author and now as an English edit ...
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How to eliminate a bottleneck in English journal publication (1)
虞左俊 2009-10-15 15:54
I recently learned from a journal editor that 稿件的编辑加工是一个bottleneck. Since I have been involved in journal publication for more than 15 years, first as an author and now as an English editor, I would like to share some views based on my own (limited) experiences. ...
个人分类: Scientific Writing|4392 次阅读|3 个评论
To have, or not to have “the” (2): some examples
虞左俊 2009-10-14 15:25
The magnitude of the challenge of slowing the rate of biodiversity loss is demonstrated by the fact that most of the direct drivers of biodiversity loss are projected to either remain constant or to increase in the near future. (p. 14 of Ec ...
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To have, or not to have “the” (1)
虞左俊 2009-10-13 13:06
Note: please skip these (#s) when you first read this Blog. This is probably one of the (#1) hardest questions for even the (#2) native speakers. To find out the (#3) rules, I once took a paragraph from a manuscript and visited three native speakers: a British re ...
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Native Speakers (updated)
虞左俊 2009-10-9 08:50
This article is written for you, if you have been told recently by a journal editor that your manuscript needs to be edited by a “native speaker.” You don’t need to read further, if you understand that here a “native speaker” has its specific meaning: it means a native spea ...
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