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CHECKLIST TO USE BEFORE SUBMITTING A PAPER TO A JOURNAL
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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 or a 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 is organized in the best possible way.
15 Made all equivalent items look the same?
NOT ¡°scheme 1 . . . .Scheme 2¡±
BUT ¡°Scheme 1. . . Scheme 2¡±
16 removed all contractions, such as ¡°can¡¯t¡± or ¡°couldn¡¯t¡±? and changed them to ¡°cannot¡± or ¡°could not¡±?
17 checked the columns of numbers in your Tables and made all the decimal points in the same column line up vertically?
18 put a noun right after ¡°this¡± or ¡°these¡± every time you use one of those words?
19 moved ¡°however¡± away from the beginning of sentences to a spot later in a sentence where it sounds better?
20 made all your abbreviations the same?
NOT 48 hrs 3 hours 2 h five h
BUT 48 h 3 h 2 h 5 h
21 used strong definite words?
NOT ¡°We have been interested in¡±
BUT ¡°We have focused on¡±
22 used parallel wording where you lead your readers to expect it?
NOT ¡°not only for fabricating. .but also for reduction¡±
BUT ¡°not only for fabricating. . .but also for reducing. . .¡±
OR ¡°not only for the formation of. . .but also for the elimination of. . ¡°
Don¡¯t mix words ending in ¡°ing¡± with ¡°ion¡± words.
23 proofread your paper 3 times? At least!
24 read your paper aloud to yourself?
25 Did you use ¡°later¡± when you meant ¡°latter¡±?
26 looked for fruit in your figure captions?
A fig is a fruit you can eat, but ¡°Fig.¡± is the correct abbreviation for ¡°Figure.¡± Don¡¯t forget the period in the abbreviation.
27 proofread your references? Made sure that a journal title, no matter how often it occurs, is always spelled the same way?
28 followed the reference format for the journal you are submitting to?
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