scientific writing

[muriel lederman]

>
>        The fault, dear Muriel,
>        lies not with the editors,
>        but with ourselves,
>        that we are unintelligible...

I stand corrected! but still maintain that there is a level of quality
control missing at the publication level. If a journal sent rejected a
paper that was poorly written, even though the data were fine, people might
shape up real fast. Muriel
>


Muriel Lederman           lederman at vt.edu     540.231.5702 (phone)
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