{"id":102,"date":"2006-03-07T07:47:45","date_gmt":"2006-03-07T07:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/03\/07\/rule-11-dont-be-peter-woit\/"},"modified":"2006-03-07T07:47:45","modified_gmt":"2006-03-07T07:47:45","slug":"rule-11-dont-be-peter-woit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/03\/07\/rule-11-dont-be-peter-woit\/","title":{"rendered":"Rule 11: Don&#8217;t Be Peter Woit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/biocurious.com\/ten-simple-rules-for-getting-published\">BioCurious<\/a>, the Public Library of Science offers an op-ed titled <a href=\"http:\/\/compbiol.plosjournals.org\/perlserv\/?request=get-document&#038;doi=10.1371\/journal.pcbi.0010057\">Ten Simple Rules for Getting Published<\/a>. The advice is aimed at biologists, but it&#8217;s broadly applicable. I especially like:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Rule 4: If you do not write well in the English language, take lessons early; it will be invaluable later.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is not just about grammar, but more importantly comprehension. The best papers are those in which complex ideas are expressed in a way that those who are less than immersed in the field can understand. Have you noticed that the most renowned scientists often give the most logical and simply stated yet stimulating lectures? This extends to their written work as well. Note that writing clearly is valuable, even if your ultimate career does not hinge on producing good scientific papers in English language journals. Submitted papers that are not clearly written in good English, unless the science is truly outstanding, are often rejected or at best slow to publish since they require extensive copyediting.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, if only I could get my lab students to understand that writing is an important part of the process&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via BioCurious, the Public Library of Science offers an op-ed titled Ten Simple Rules for Getting Published. The advice is aimed at biologists, but it&#8217;s broadly applicable. I especially like: Rule 4: If you do not write well in the English language, take lessons early; it will be invaluable later. This is not just about&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/03\/07\/rule-11-dont-be-peter-woit\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rule 11: Don&#8217;t Be Peter Woit<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}