今天是来自于弗雷赛斯润色部主编Alia的处女篇：

The Most important rules to improve your scientific writing

以上是原文题目，为方便粉丝阅读，新媒体部小编予以部分翻译。

Good scientific writing can get your work published even if the science is not that good. But bad writing might get your work rejected even if the science is good! That’s why good scientific writing is so important!

第一段话就说明了好的写作的重要性，好的写作是成功发表的一半，甚至有化腐朽为神器的作用。

• Are you confused about how to write scientific manuscripts?

• Do you want to Improve your scientific writing skills?

• Do you want to Avoid common mistakes Chinese authors make?

• Do you want to make your manuscript sound more native?

是的，目前市面上还没有相关学习课程，如何让SCI写作更加地道是一个大家都梦寐以求的。

In my many years of polishing manuscripts written by Chinese authors I have noticed many common mistakes that authors make. Don’t you think it would be great if someone could tell you what are the most common mistakes? Well that is why I am writing this article! I will not only tell you what they are, but I will briefly show you how to avoid them in your own work and how to make your manuscripts sound more native!

Alia有超过6年的润色从业经历，尤其是对国人的写作错误很熟悉，所以他很了解我们经常犯的错误。

Here are 5 of some of the most important rules to remember when writing your manuscript:

Rule number 1: Don’t waste your sentences.

The space in your manuscript is valuable, and the readers time is also valuable. So try to make your sentences efficient and don’t write things that are unnecessary; don’t write information that does not tell the reader anything important about your study.

• Don’t use empty words or phases like “It is important to note in this case that…” Just say: “Notably”. Don’t say “For this reason”, say: “Therefore”.

• Don’t use complicated terminology – make it simple! Don’t say: “Chronotropic rate of the heart” say “Heart rate”.

• Make sure that you reduce the amount of adverbs that you use. Words like very or really don’t give any extra valuable information to the reader. It just takes up space!

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Rule number 2: Use Verbs. Don’t use Nouns!

Verbs make our sentences interesting, clear, and short! Whilst nouns make your sentences boring, confusing and long.

• Don’t say: The investigation of our study looked at the effect...” Say: ““Our study investigated the effect of …”.

• Don’t say: “The role of Vitamin B12 in myelin production was our investigation.” Say: “We investigated the role of Vitamin B12 in the formation of myelin.”

同上。

Rule number 3: Use the active voice, not the passive voice!

Many writers think that the passive voice makes writing more professional. But in fact it makes it long and confusing. The active voice is an exciting and direct way of explaining your meaning. It also reduces your word count!

• The passive voice – the subject is ‘acted upon’ by the verb.

• The active voice – the subject ‘acts’

• Don’t say: “If coevolution took place in our experiment was determined by performing 13,500 time-shift assays.” Say “We determined if coevolution took place in our experiment by performing 13,500 time-shift assays.”

这是一个很大的误区，这里Alia提出来了。

Rule number 4: Don’t use negatives in sentences

Negatives are words that have a negative meaning in them, like no, don’t, impossible, or none. If you use two negative words in a sentence it can change the meaning of your sentence. Two negatives make a positive!

• Don’t say: “ It is not impossible that GSK is the reason for the activation of the Wnt signalling pathway.” Say: “It is possible that GSK is the reason for the activation of the Wnt signalling pathway.”

• Don’t say: “The investigation by the WHO also does not disagree with our study findings.” Say: “The investigation by the WHO also agrees with our study findings.”

问问自己，双重否定的话为啥不用肯定呢。

Rule number 5: Make your paragraphs clear and logical!

Your paragraphs help to guide your reader through your manuscripts and should gradually build your study. Just like building a house, your sentences are the bricks of your manuscript and the paragraphs are the walls. A good paragraph will make your meaning clear to readers, not confuse them! Always remember the following rules:

• One idea per paragraph.

• Keep the paragraph short!

• Don’t make the idea complicated (don’t mix two ideas together)

• Describe the conclusion of the paragraph from he beginning.

• Emphasise any important points at the end of the paragraph.

• Check you used all the sentence rules!

• Always introduce to the reader old information first, then introduce new information.

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第一部分是讲句子，这里讲到段落的要点，同样，很多同学在写作的时候，什么都想表达，忍住， mix one ideas enough！

They were some of the most important rules to remember. If you want to learn more about these rules as well as many more rules that can help you improve your scientific writing. I have created a course that will help you A LOT!

In the course videos I will show you how manuscripts published in high impact factor journals use these rules when writing to produce excellent manuscripts.

I am sure by the end of these videos you will learn so much, and your manuscript will be one step closer to being published!

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