2012年2月8日星期三

Paper writing notes learned from Dr Thompson

Today I received another thorough editing from Dr Paul Thompson. I found some pattern that I think I should keep in mind for later.

1. In .bib files, when you need some character to be in Cap in the generated PDF, e.g. "fMRI" somewhere in the title, do the following in the .bib file: "f{MRI}".

2. The use of tenses! Make them consistent!

3. Dr Thompson seems to have an issue with "utilize", he changed all of them to "use"... I thought "utilize" sounds cooler :-(

4. "More details can be found..." is always changed into "More details may be found..."

5. Things like "achieves the best performance..." is always changed into "perform the best...". I think he don't like to convert verbs into nouns...

6. Do not say "our method can benefit../will be able to...". Say it with proud: "our method benefits.../will..."

7. He generally likes the sentence to be concise. E.g., "if utilizing all these additional information will be beneficial for classification..." is changed to: "if this additional information can help classification..."

8. "The results are summarized in...." is always changed into "Results are summarized in...", not sure why though...

9. He does not like "As we can observe from the Table..."; these are changed to "As we see in Table...". But Sherlock always tells us to observe T__T