...is that you spend too much time gloating over (NOT doing) the formatting that the actual content of your paper gets neglected.

Turning a poorly organized paper full of wording and grammatical problems into something looking more or less acceptable is definitely worthy work. Contrary to what some people may think, I don't usually hate such work, and sometimes I even find myself enjoying it. However, it does get a bit boring at times, particularly when there seems to be ( Read more... )

Maybe many people will find this a well-understood problem. After all, there are numerous books and guidelines on this topic, and it isn't all that hard to follow their advice. However, my experience after reading so many papers is that a lot of papers, including those by experts, are terribly hard to read, even though they may be technically ( Read more... )

For the last two days I have been revising my paper for publication. In some ways, it is interesting to look for better ways to express the ideas, to organize the ideas so that they are easier to read, and to correct various minor formatting problems, but sometimes it is also very tiring indeed ( Read more... )

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Usually I only read the most important papers, such as those with more than twenty citations in scholar.google.com, but today I decide to do a more thorough job in case I miss something, so I looked at all the search results and downloaded everything that seemed remotely interesting. Now, the twenty or so papers have taken me almost a whole day to ( Read more... )

My advisor told me yesterday that due to one of my harsh reviews, he had decided to give it a rejection. Well, I think my review is justified (as long as I didn't make any horrible mistakes...but I did check very carefully!), but a flat-out rejection might be--just a bit--too much, for it really wasn't THAT bad compared to most papers on similar ( Read more... )