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Writing with Plant Editors and Peridot Scientific Communications
Here at Plant Editors, we are your partners for writing in plant biology. Our collegial, helpful, thorough editors will read your paper, correct errors, and provide suggestions for making your writing clear, concise, and effective. A lot of our authors find that our suggestions and comments help them learn to be better writers–and we love…
Read MoreMeticulous Methods, Minus the Madness
The old saying “there’s a method to my madness” means that however strange I may be acting, I have a plan. Well, we have a few suggestions to make a plan and avoid madness when you are writing the methods section for your manuscript. Be thorough! Write in as much detail as you can, including…
Read MoreSearch and Destroy: Top Ten Uses for Search Functions in Revising Your Paper
In the post on spaces, we mentioned that you can use Google Ngram to find the most-common usage for words. Here are more ways the search function in your word processor, and a good search engine can help: Defining acronyms/abbreviations/initialisms on first occurrence and using them consistently throughout the text. We suggest you spell out…
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