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Search 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…
Read MoreIt’s All About That Space
I’m sorry, were you bored with italics? Good—that’s why busy plant biologists hire editors like us to take care of the picky details. Let’s talk about something that is arguably more interesting—in fact, it has started Twitter feuds. That’s right: spaces (or the lack thereof)! Do put a space between the number and the unit,…
Read MoreTo lean or not to lean? Second post in a brief series on italics.
Whew, that was a long gap between posts, but don’t think we’ve forgotten about italics while we’ve been busy editing manuscripts. Since it seems like every language blogger and editing service in the universe has written a post on italics, we’ve tried to make this more useful to you, the plant biologist, by including plant-specific…
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