Quality Control Editor Pete Marbais shares his experience with AJE's language editing service and some suggestions for researchers writing manuscripts.

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Here, we speak with Quality Control Editor Pete Marbais about his experience with our language editing service and his suggestions for researchers writing manuscripts.

Avoid common mistakes by structuring the elements of your sentences clearly, especially with regard to modifiers.

Editing Tip: Avoiding Misplaced Modifiers | AJE

One common mistake made by many writers is not structuring the elements of a sentence in the clearest manner possible, especially with respect to modifiers.

Editing Tip: Avoiding Misplaced Modifiers

This tip reviews how to properly use parenthetical elements, clauses and phrases that can help clarify meaning in your scientific writing.

Editing Tip: Parenthetical Elements | AJE

Introductory clauses are used to emphasize the relationships between ideas presented in two sentences or within a paragraph. Here are a few commonly misused introductory clauses and examples of their correct and incorrect uses.

Editing Tip: Introductory Phrases in Academic Writing | AJE

Introductory phrases can be tricky to use properly

Some introductory phrases are better for contrasting, others for highlighting similarity

Editing Tip: Introductory Phrases in Academic Writing

Abbreviations can be made plural, but there are specific techniques to consider when doing so

Editing Tip: Singular and Plural Abbreviations | AJE

Editing Tip: Singular and Plural Abbreviations

How to write scientific species names in your next paper.

Editing Tip: Scientific Names of Species | AJE

To help you understand the correct use of scientific species names, here are a few key terms and conventions that may appear in your journal's guidelines for authors.

This tip focuses on a pervasive yet unnecessary "rule" of English writing: the ban against splitting infinitives. While splitting infinitives is not often the clearest way to convey meaning, it should not really be considered "wrong" to do so.

Editing Tip: Split Infinitives | AJE

Is it really wrong to (thoughtfully) split an infinitive?

Here are some guidelines for deciding whether to hyphenate a term that you are using in your writing.

Editing Tip: Hyphenation in Academic Writing | AJE

When should you hyphenate?  This tip provides guidelines.

Editing Tip: Hyphenation in Academic Writing

Though we often deal with the word that as a relative pronoun, we rarely talk about its other very common use as a complementizer, wherein it acts as a subordinating conjunction to introduce a clause.

Editing Tip: Using 'That' as a Complementizer | AJE

When the word 'that' is used to introduce a clause, it has a different purpose and grammatical structure from its other uses.

Editing Tip: Using 'That' as a Complementizer

Tag: Clarity in writing

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Editing Tip: Avoiding Misplaced Modifiers

Editing Tip: Parenthetical Elements

Editing Tip: Introductory Phrases in Academic Writing

Editing Tip: Singular and Plural Abbreviations

Editing Tip: Scientific Names of Species

Editing Tip: Split Infinitives

Editing Tip: Hyphenation in Academic Writing

Editing Tip: Using 'That' as a Complementizer