A Scientific Approach
If you want to publish papers in highly ranked journals, or reach target audiences with any other communications, they must be:
Clear, focused and present all the required information
You may have spent months, or even years, researching an interesting phenomenon or developing new methodology, novel concepts or advanced equipment, but the hard work is not over. A key step remains: to communicate your findings or developments to readers or customers. Many brilliant scientists, other academics and technicians find this challenging, but for 16 years we have successfully applied a scientific approach to this challenge, editing or re-writing thousands of papers on behalf of hundreds of clients based in more than 30 countries:
Expressing the information that needs to be included in each section of a text clearly and concisely
Applying effective strategies to address limitations and highlight novelties
Responding to referees
To share this expertise, the Director of Sees-editing Ltd. (John Blackwell) and a long-standing colleague (Jan Martin) have written a book entitled A Scientific Approach to Scientific Writing, published by Springer, New York. John and Jan have written, re-written or edited more than 4,000 papers, reviews, theses, reports and other texts. Based on this experience, and inputs from senior scientists from various countries, the book is primarily designed to help scientists who are not native English speakers to compose scientific communications and address referees’ comments.
For further information regarding this book and the authors, click on the image to go Springer’s site or visit the Abstracts and Authors pages of this site.
- Colour profiles of outputs from centrifugals (of five, two shown here) at a cane sugar mill continuously monitored by a Neltec ColourQ colorimeter. Courtesy of Bjarne Nielsen, Neltec, Denmark.
- Plant development in biofilter columns used in experiments at Monash University, Australia. Courtesy Godecke-Tobias Blecken, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden.
- Microscopic image of DNA capture beads (Roche/454), specifically colour-coded and flow-sorted to normalize the abundance of sequences from four pooled DNA libraries prior to 454 sequencing. Courtesy of Julia Sandberg, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden.
- llustrative response surface generated using KIVA-3V and modeFRONTIER®, for predicting distributions of equivalence ratios from Yfuel (the ratio of the mass of fuel injected at a given equivalence ratio region to the total mass injected) and timing (crank angle degrees after start of injection) in a combustion engine (courtesy of Yasumasa Suzuki, Toshitaka Nakamura, Jin Kusaka, Masatoshi Ogawa and Harutoshi Ogai, Waseda University; Shigeki Nakayama and Takao Fukuma Toyota Corp.).
- Localization of xyloglucan endohydrolase activity in part of a root of a 6 day-old A. thaliana plant using XXXG-resorufin glucoside as a fluorescent probe. Courtesy of Harry Brumer and Nomchit Kaewthai, Division of Glycoscience, School of Biotechnology, KTH, Sweden.
- Devil’s claw hairy roots in a bubble reactor. Courtesy of Prof. Milen Georgiev, Institute of Microbiology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
- The New Forest burnet (Zygaena viciae) a declining moth sensitive to increasing fragmentation and decreasing quality of its habitat. Courtesy of Prof. Markus Franzen, UFZ, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Germany.
- Pond feeding a pesticide metabolite-contaminated aquifer, for which isotopically labelled oxygen tracer distributions were used to validate and apply a 1-D vadose-zone model coupled to a 3-D finite-element groundwater model. Courtesy of Dr. Martin Bergvall, Tyrens AB, Sweden.
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Sees-editing has edited thousands of papers for scientists, technologists and industrialists based in more than 30 countries covering a huge range of subjects including: Agronomy, Archaeology, Biology, Biochemistry, Chemistry, Education, Engineering, Forestry, Genetics, Industrial Processes, Mathematics, Medicine, Social Sciences and Physics.