Please Say It Clearly: A Reflection on Proper Style of Scientific Reporting

Please Print Clearly

Say what you please? Really?

Gennari and MacDonald (2009) presented evidence that reading times in comprehension are influenced by the likelihood of a speaker choosing a particular structure in production. It’s an important and interesting paper. From this they propose the PDC (Production Distribution Comprehension): choices made to ease planning in production give rise to distributional patterns in the input, which in tur...

the role of semantic and communicative translation on reading comprehension of scientific texts

the following null hypothesis was proposed: h : there is no significant difference between the use of semantically or communicatively translates scientific texts. to test the null hypothesis, a number of procedures were taken first, two passages were selected form soyrcebooks of food and nutrition industry and gardening deciplines. each, in turn, was following by a number of comprehension quest...

Better Reporting of Scientific Studies: Why It Matters

[1], PLOS Medicine is launching a new Reporting Guidelines Collection [2], an open access collection of reporting guidelines , commentary, and related research on guidelines from across PLOS journals. This collection is consistent with the goals of the Peer Review Congress: ''to improve the quality and credibility of scientific peer review and publication and to help advance the efficiency, eff...

Say it with flowers

Amongst Chelsea Flower Show's champion blooms last month, a range of diseased specimens helped flag up key plant research goals.