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A recent blog post by Emerson Del Ponte asked if cover letters were a useless tradition or a missed opportunity. Well, you can probably tell from the title where we stand on this question. Indeed, we edit a lot of cover letters, with the aim of transforming them from a missed opportunity to an effective…

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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,…

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