Peridot Scientific
Plant Editors
Writing
What belongs in the Introduction?
It can be hard to decide how much detail to include in the Introduction. In your excitement about your work, it is all too easy to accidentally write a review of the current state of your field. At the other extreme, you can forget to slow down and explain to readers why you did what…
Read MoreLet me spell it out for you
Let me spell it out for you: the uses and perils of acronyms, initialisms, and abbreviations. So you’re hard up against the word limit and you want to make your manuscript shorter by contracting a few of your commonly used phrases into a single word. To do this, you can make an initialism out of…
Read MoreTake a walk on the wild type*
Without a doubt, one of the phrases that gives our authors a lot of trouble is “wild type”—specifically, whether it should have a hyphen or not. Spawned back in the TH Morgan days when pioneering geneticists captured wild-type fruit flies from the “wild” —if the miasma of decaying bananas surrounding these labs could be called…
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