A ghost inside the Word file?

热度 2 虞左俊 2012-2-13 04:13

I am not sure this ever happened before. I turned the tracking on, and started to edit a manuscript. A few edits later, most of my editing was messed up: some deleted words reappeared, and some stayed. I cut and paste the whole paper into the new file. It didn't help. What is going on?

个人分类: Scientific Writing|2405 次阅读|4 个评论 热度 2

Inaccuracy in English writing

热度 2 虞左俊 2012-2-2 07:28

I remember (do I?) someone said that a UN document needs to be recorded by 3-4 languages, to avoid misinterpretation. Here is one example how easily English writing can mislead us. our words about sugar The background is well-known: In the United States, more than two- ...

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Share a secret about how to write SCI papers

热度 1 虞左俊 2012-1-13 04:15

I noticed a new client, a fresh Ph. D. from Nan Da, who writes English like a native speaker, actually better than a native speaker. I asked him to reveal his secret. He replied: "I read about 500 papers written in English."

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Respectively

热度 3 虞左俊 2012-1-12 07:44

Do you know how to use it properly in your writing?

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testing

热度 1 虞左俊 2012-1-12 07:18

testing

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TGIS

热度 1 虞左俊 2012-1-9 15:54

You probably know about the TGIF (Thank God It's Friday). Well, I do like Fridays, but I love Saturdays and Sundays, TGIS (Thank God It's Saturday, or Sunday). Especially this weekend, I needed these two extra days to beat some deadlines of editing. I was lucky t ...

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I am in trouble...

虞左俊 2012-1-6 11:38

So many of my colleagues worked through the holidays, and returned to work with new manuscripts and revisions. I am afraid that I will need to say "sorry" very soon. I have only two hands, and one head...

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Do not publish for the sake of publishing

热度 1 虞左俊 2012-1-3 08:20

I just spent hours editing a paper, which had poor figure designs and poor introduction. It only got worse...

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I am trapped in summer, forever...

虞左俊 2012-1-2 07:08

For the last few days, I was editing a 7,000 word paper that uses more than 50 "boreal summer" in all. Today, I am turning "summer" into "austral summer" many times over in a different paper. Well, just in case you are curious, I am physically in winter here in Hawaii. But, to most of you, I might ...

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