Before my summer lectures on scientific writing, I have received the following questions from a student rep. I post my quick, and not well-thought-through, answers below. I hope you all can contribute by giving your version of A1, A2 and A3. Thank yo ...
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 ...
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 ...
Ok, AGU wants your manuscript, or your page charge Here, AGU stands for American Geophysical Union. It recently came up with instructions for authors in five la ...
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 ...
Nature Editor's Summary on 3 September 2009 Nitrogen lost at sea Fixed nitrogen availability is the factor limiting primary production in more than half of the world's oceans. Recent reports have shown that anammox (anaerobic ammonium oxidation), rather than conventi ...
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 ...
When you read articles in English, pay attention to these two words: but and and . You may notice these two words occasionally are used at the beginning of a sentence, BUT good scientific writing should avoid starting a sentence with either of these two words. ...
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