tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4756577664775364770.post2195865535617028588..comments2014-09-02T00:07:53.029-07:00Comments on From the blue side: Maybe I had a bad weekFrom the Blue Sidehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11978284833716866845noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4756577664775364770.post-42616168767745545842013-05-27T12:11:49.951-07:002013-05-27T12:11:49.951-07:00Many thanks for your comment and encouragement. I ...Many thanks for your comment and encouragement. I hope so: I don't want to fall into this trap either, and now the paper I told in the post is already submitted to GRL. <br />It's really sad what you say about your colleague. I don't know if knowing that more people feels like him at some point can make him to feel better and to have more confidence, but from my part all the best and encouragement for him.<br /><br />Regards,<br /><br />RaquelFrom the Blue Sidehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11978284833716866845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4756577664775364770.post-54599297378513546962013-05-27T11:44:50.085-07:002013-05-27T11:44:50.085-07:00Hi
another thing that could be said is: No shame!...Hi<br /><br />another thing that could be said is: No shame! I have found that very helpful in trying to write. I have seen that in myself and many other people: one writes something up as a paper and looks at what one has written and is ashamed of it because it seems so bad. I have developed the habit of telling myself actively to completely disregard this - no poetry prize to be won in a scientific paper! The drawers of people are overloaded with interesting and hard won data and work that never see hte light of publicity because people are ashamed of their writing. For instance, I have a colleague who is an excellent microscopist and sits on a heap of observations that makes famous professors envious - but he hasnt published a single paper since he came to us in 2007. Beacuse he can never feel that anything he writes is "good enough". And so, a whole body of work might as well never have been done, things get forgotten every six weeks etc. It is such a sad thing. So for you I can only say, it doesnt matter - you dont have to like what you write - When it´s out then it´s out! That alone counts. <br /><br />Now, now, I hope you can relate! And I hope that you don´t fall into this trap! It is so difficult to escape. <br /><br />Groeten<br /><br />m<br /> <br /><br /> marsangeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15329148242190984489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4756577664775364770.post-69632320675736140672013-05-10T13:30:39.182-07:002013-05-10T13:30:39.182-07:00Hi!
Thank you very much for your comment. I apprec...Hi!<br />Thank you very much for your comment. I appreciate very much your oppinion, and it makes me have more confidence.<br />On the other hand, finally, my coauthors are happy with the last version, and I will submit the paper to GRL next week. Now, ... we will what the reviewers say.<br />I completely agree with you: I think it's better that I published my work and make it public, even it's not perfect, than keep it on my computer. <br /><br />Schönes Wochenende,<br /><br />RaquelFrom the Blue Sidehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11978284833716866845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4756577664775364770.post-84931424813900836282013-05-09T22:37:35.099-07:002013-05-09T22:37:35.099-07:00Hi
I must say, I find nothing wrong with "i...Hi <br /><br />I must say, I find nothing wrong with "in the above figure it is observed that ...". As a reviewer I wouldnt bat an eye over that. There are truly badly written papers out there but that means so bad english that the actual sense of the text gets distorted. Once I saw a paper from Russia talking about gigantic magnetites which in russian original had been "titanomagnetites". (That was a translation error of course). More recently I am worried about the large volume of chinese papers: I had to follow a tiny story on nanoprecipitates and saw an author group that published mini-paper after mini-paper, and published the same IR spectrum about the same material in two successive texts, and assigned completely different structural meanings to the same peaks therein in each paper. These are real worries. To me this level of English "correctness of language" that you worry about here is style, not substance. Of course one wants to learn the style, but as the confidence about the subject grows, so, I hope for you too, will grow the confidence about the style. Just think of the many papers, in your field no less, that say "we think this means that ... " and so on: unabashedly personal and present tense. Although that really can be overdone, you should not be afraid to write in your own style. The crucial thing is clarity and nonambiguity and conciseness too (the latter is what I never manage). <br /><br />"There is no usefulness in that I know something relevant for my research field if nobody else knows it."<br /><br />Yes yes, thats for me the point of hurt. <br /><br />Beste groeten<br /><br />marsangeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15329148242190984489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4756577664775364770.post-74498052235382363622013-04-30T00:43:20.298-07:002013-04-30T00:43:20.298-07:00Gracias. Te he entendido perfectamente y creo que ...Gracias. Te he entendido perfectamente y creo que tienes razón pero hay un par de detalles más que, por desgracia o por suerte, también cuentan. Primero, que independientemente del tiempo verbal que uses, tus razonamientos o explicaciones van a ser cuestionados -para eso nos pagan, je,je,je-. Segundo, que creo que el jardín lo he montado yo. Me explico, o lo intento. Me parece que el presente, lo que llamabamos en clase de lengua 'presente habitual', usado para describir lo que cuentan unas figuras es 'más personal' que narrar en pasado unos hechos. Me da la sensación de que si escribo 'En la figura se observa que la temperatura aumenta desde ...', en lugar de 'La temperatura aumentó desde ...' siempre seré yo quien cuente la misma historia una y otra vez cada vez que alguien lo lea. Eso me gusta porque es una forma en la que puedo estar 'presente' sin estar, lo cual debe evitarse pues no importa quién ha hecho qué sino el qué. Eso lo entiendo y lo comparto, pero no soy una máquina. Soy una persona, y como tal escribo.<br /><br />No sé si he aclarado algo, o lo he liado todavía más. Probablemente lo segundo. <br /><br />Un beso<br /><br /><br /><br />From the Blue Sidehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11978284833716866845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4756577664775364770.post-79584280540557451422013-04-29T23:48:15.744-07:002013-04-29T23:48:15.744-07:00relaxxxx!!!! tu receta para relajarte me parece mu...relaxxxx!!!! tu receta para relajarte me parece muy muy buena aunque ya sabes que yo el ejercicio... jajajajajaja <br />en cuanto al escribir en pasado o en presente supongo que sea -modesta opinión de alguien que no tiene ni pajolera idea- porque al escribir en pasado se da por hecho que lo que explicas ha sucedido ya y por lo tanto tiene más fuerza que algo que está pasando ahora, no sé si me explico. Si hay un hecho que ocurrió en el pasado ya ha pasado a ser aceptado y no cuestionado. Eso creo. Uisss que jardín jijiji<br />Sea como sea espero que los co-autores no te den mucho la paliza.<br />Un besazo preciosa.ahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00171467368021325217noreply@blogger.com