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DOI for russian journal Tekhnicheskaya Kibernetika
(Not sure if this is the right SX site, but math.sx seemed to have no questions concerning DOIs.)
Everything I cite in my thesis has a DOI or URL (I think that's important), but I'm citing an article ...
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How to refer to a page number in a pdf?
Many times, the page number in pdf is different than the printed page number. How to make sure the other person doesn't get confused when we say "it's on Nth page".
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How do you thematically include accidental findings (“serendipity”) in a dissertation or paper?
I'm asking for approaches to include interesting, but not perfectly fitting results in a dissertation or a paper.
During my PhD project I have made an accidental discovery, which is what I believe ...
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What tense should paper titles use?
I have recently noticed that the tense of paper titles can be somewhat odd. This previous question, In what tense (present/past) should papers be written?, has some great information but it doesn't ...
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Correcting language for senior professor
I am a first year PhD Student, writing a conference paper with an Italian Professor, very senior and renowned in our field. Every commit he makes to the SVN is riddled with spelling and grammar ...
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Guidelines for changing terminology introduced by self?
The topics that have been in my research focus recently have problems with consistent naming and terminology through time and papers, so I might perceive it as a greater problem than I would normally, ...
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How to find / understand research in other languages when you don't know that language?
I'm starting to do some research in Asia, however, I don't know the local language. I do have some contacts, all of whom speak English, but I'm worried about finding earlier research which was ...
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Is hiring a proofreader beneficial in the long term?
I am an Early Stage Researcher in a bigger project. I am non-native speaker of English and I find my level of English in my articles not satisfactory, especially when I consider that it is not just my ...
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What are the standard practices for hyphenating/spelling scientific words
I would like to know what are standard practices when words are spelled differently across the literature and/or dictionaries (when these words can be found in dictionaries). A few examples of the ...
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Would it be ethical to hire a proofreader for theses and academic articles?
Proofreading documents for orthography is a pain. I consider that I am decent at writing in my native language (on the grammar and orthography side), but proofreading for typos and whatnots is a ...
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Is it reasonable to evaluate spelling/grammar in reports for students diagnosed with dyslexia?
Students diagnosed with dyslexia qualify for accommodations at most universities. As with other special needs students, they're entitled extra time for work, exams, access or licenses to spell ...
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Language requirements for an academic researcher
When I went to college, an old-schooled teacher of mine insisted that, because I was interested in chemistry, I needed to work on my German as it was the lingua franca of that trade. It turns out, ...
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In what tense (present/past) should papers be written?
That is, should it be present tense or past tense?
Should there be a difference between the abstract, main body and the conclusion?
Does the field of publication have any impact?
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Unprofessional to write (in a paper) that something is “really cool”?
Is it unprofessional to write (in a paper) that something is "really cool", for example, when describing a colliding black hole simulation?
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In conference review process, what do “author response” and “author notification” mean?
I just visited a conference website where organizers, for the submitted paper review process, listed a date for paper submission, a date for "author response", and another date for "author ...
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Writing papers in language X and translating to English vs. writing papers in English to begin with?
I'm working with a group in China, and we were discussing the following question, which I would like to ask here too:
Question: Is it better to write a paper in Chinese, then translate it into ...
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Can I use contractions in my thesis?
I am writing my thesis (in Computer Science, if that's relevant) and I am thinking about the style, especially about using contractions.
I realize that thesis is a formal text and contractions like ...
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How to find ways to proofread English in papers
As a non-native speaker of English, it can often be hard to spot some of the errors that a native speaker would find. For a long time, I've been thinking about getting a native speaker to help me with ...
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Translating/Transliterating foreign bibliography references
Let's say I want to cite a russian text in my own paper which is written in English. Should I:
reference it as is, in the original language and cyrillics, although the readers won't be able even to ...
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How to get into position to teach college Arabic?
I am interested in teaching at the university-level in Arabic. Would teaching arabic in a high-school first(as I have no university-level teaching experience) help me? I currently teach science to ...
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English certifications: which ones are recognized overseas?
In the European Union we have a "Common European Framework of Reference for Languages". In practice all language certification programmes have one of those levels associated to them (ranging from A1, ...
