e**p
发帖数: 4259 | 1 文章虽然被接受了，但我被那个science editor整的不行了，文章里所有的话几乎都被
她改过，上次大改过，这次又来了，从头看到尾，全是tracked changes, 感觉这个
editro非常stubborn，哪有文章千篇一律非要用她的话的啊？ 比如说，我用reduced,
她非要说用decreased,文章里所有的reduced全部要改成decreased的。
除了我不是native English speaker外，文章的其他3个作者全是老美，2个都是非常
senior的，full professor,系头，而且是在本领域内是大牛。我这3个co-author非常
认真改这篇文章来来回回改了1年了，投过New England Journal of Medicine和JAMA，
review过后被拒才投的JNCI,而且NEJM有comments回来的，基本无大过，就是editor不
喜欢这个topic才悲剧的，所以说英语上是绝对没有问题的了。
我现在看到这篇文章就想吐了，但这是我薄厚的第一篇文章啊，不改不行，总觉得这个
editor在abuse她的权力
我发过10来篇文章了，可能以前太顺风顺水了，从来没有这样被折磨过，现在脆弱的心
灵痛苦不堪上来吐个槽，顺便问问这样改法常见么？在这个领域做了10年了，这次才深
深体会到academia摧残人的方式多么的无聊！ | z*h
发帖数: 773 | 2 Do you know the difference between decrease and reduce? Read some guideline
for academic writing. The editor's change is right or more accurate. | e**p
发帖数: 4259 | 3 They are interchangeable in my area. if we do not want to make the paper
boring, we used them alternatively. I asked one of my colleagues here, and
she agreed with me. She thought it was only a style issue. The editor loves
doing in this way.
guideline
【在 z*h 的大作中提到】
: Do you know the difference between decrease and reduce? Read some guideline
: for academic writing. The editor's change is right or more accurate.
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