文档介绍：CHECKLIST TO USE BEFORE SUBMITTING A PAPER TO A JOURNAL Have you --------------? 1 spell checked the whole paper? 2 rewritten your paper at least three times? 3 stopped working on your paper for a day? To see and hear your words better when you look at it again. 4 put your main point into your title? 5 put your most significant findings first? Your gold first? 6 made it easy for readers to tell from your title and your abstract what is new and important about your work? 7 made sure all your verbs and subjects match? Plural verbs have plural subjects? Singular verbs have singular subjects? 8 spelled the same name exactly the same way throughout your paper? NOT “ Bragg. .. .Brag ” BUT BRAGG every time! 9 asked a friend ora native English speaker to read your paper and tell you what ’s confusing or unclear? 10 changed nouns to adjectives when necessary? NOT “ three dimension ordered array ” BUT “ three dimensional ordered array ” 11 used active verbs rather than passive verbs as much as possible? NOT “ The effects were investigated. ..” BUT “ We investigated the effects ” 12 found a way to break a sentence that ’s much too long (over 4 lines) into two sentences? 13 broken up a paragraph that is way too long into two paragraphs? 14 tried to reduce your paper to its skeleton by making a one page outline of it? Might help you see if your paper anized in the best possible way. 15 Made