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Pointers on Preparing Papers for Professional Publication: A Perspective from a Researcher, Reviewer, and Editor Patrick A. Cabe, Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Pembroke About US – 关于我们 2 波士顿， 美国 English Language Editing 论文英语母语化润色 Manuscript Formatting 论文格式整理 Professional Translation 论文专业翻译 Subject-specific Editing 同行资深专家修改润色 中国 上海 3 我们已经成功完成 10,000+ 项目，帮助发表数以千计的科技论文。 We have assisted many international researchers and delivered over 10,000 projects in the past three years. About US – 关于我们 27: 1298-1308 (2012) 57: 794-802 (2012) 91: 849–862 (2012) 134: 10803-10806 (2012) 9: e1003231 (2013) 31: 838–850 (2013) 4: 1424 (2013) 97: 1371-1374 (2012) 9: 175-195 (2013) 86: 13841-13842 (2012) 47: 946-956 (2013) 18: 290–297 (2013) 4 OUR PRIMARY AIM: Helping you develop publishable research papers How to achieve that aim: Choosing research problems Writing up your results Interacting with journals General tips for improving your writing Some common writing and style issues Overview My suggestions come from my experience as a reviewer, editor, and teacher. 5 Choosing research problems What makes a research problem worth working on? Historical importance – viewed as important over many years, but still not completely settled Theoretical importance – tests some proposition derived from theory (Q: Is the theory itself important?), esp. if the test can falsify the theory Practical importance – helps solve/resolve some problem that has practical significance Trivial, unimportant, dead-end research problems… …take just as much time, effort, and resources as good problems …are harder to get published, especially in high visibility journals Choose problems wisely! Research is expensive. Your time can never be replaced. Choosing research problems 6 A good general plan for an individual paper: Experiment 1: Demonstrate the effect Further experiments: (Partial) replications + extensions to… …test reliability, robustness of the effect …probe generalizability of the effect …resolve