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How to Choose English Editing Service for Your Manuscript
虞左俊 2009-9-23 14:58
This article is written for you, if you have been told recently by a journal editor that your manuscript needs to be edited by a native speaker. You may ask: Who are you to write such an article? Its true that I have never used any English ed ...
个人分类: Scientific Writing|8046 次阅读|没有评论
My Favorite Books (updated on May 22, 2010)
虞左俊 2009-9-23 11:07
I use this space to share the novels that I enjoyed reading. 1. The Little Book by Selden Edwards (his debut) 2. Lost in Translation (note: this has nothing to do with the movie of the same title) A Cup of Light ...
个人分类: iBook|3677 次阅读|没有评论
Scientific Writing for Beginners (4): Title and Abstract
热度 2 虞左俊 2009-9-21 05:43
How to choose a strong title? A strong title offers two things: 1) the topic of the research; 2) its unique identity that is different from all other papers in the field. Test: Does it stand out from a computer search, s ...
个人分类: Scientific Writing|5231 次阅读|4 个评论 热度 2
This I Believe (转载 with comments)
虞左俊 2009-9-21 04:33
This I Believe is an international project engaging people in writing and sharing essays describing the core values that guide their daily lives . Over 60,000 of these essays, written by people from all walks of life , are archived here on our website, heard on public radio, chronicled th ...
个人分类: I Love NPR|4729 次阅读|没有评论
The Biker and the Bridge (to Hawaii; 转载)
虞左俊 2009-9-20 11:05
A man was riding his Harley along a California beach when suddenly the sky clouded above his head. In a booming voice, the Lord said, Because you have tried to be faithful to me in all ways, I will grant you one wish. The biker pulled over and said, ...
个人分类: From the U.S.|3635 次阅读|1 个评论
My Favorite Movies (updated on 2009-09-24)
虞左俊 2009-9-20 07:39
2) U.S.A. movies: Bicentennial Man (1999) By Chris Columbus Two hundred years in the life of an extraordinary robot are chronicled when the Martin family purchases an android named Andrew ...
个人分类: iMovie (updated)|4062 次阅读|没有评论
Scientific Writing for Beginners (3): Using an Outline
热度 2 虞左俊 2009-9-20 06:30
If you know how to swim, you must have learned it in the water. The same is true for writing. You have to keep on writing in order to learn how to write well. If you are writing a paper of more than 3,000 words, you should consider putting together an outline first. A ...
个人分类: Scientific Writing|5978 次阅读|10 个评论 热度 2
Scientific Writing for Beginners (2): Preparing Your Figs/Ca
虞左俊 2009-9-17 14:02
When you think you have obtained enough new results for a paper, you can do what I did using the following three steps. Step 1: Gathering a set of figures. Design these figures with great care so that they can help you to tell a story; say, using them to give an informal ...
个人分类: Scientific Writing|6191 次阅读|1 个评论
Scientific Writing for Beginners (1): Basic Knowledge
热度 1 虞左俊 2009-9-14 08:17
English is not my mother tongue. Today, people say to me:”How did you learn to write so well?” I learned basic English in China, where I had the best English teacher of the whole school (Shangdong College of Oceanography, now Ocean University of China) and graduate school (Zhongsh ...
个人分类: Scientific Writing|6718 次阅读|4 个评论 热度 1

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