Generic_Applicant Posted December 30, 2015 Posted December 30, 2015 Does this sentence make sense? Some of these studies are now in the stage of manuscript preparation, which I look forward to sharing with the scientific community upon publication. If not, could you suggest an alternative one line that could say this in one sentence. It's getting to that point where my brain is mush and I don't know anymore lol
fuzzylogician Posted December 30, 2015 Posted December 30, 2015 Well, it makes sense, but it conveys exactly as much information as this sentence: Some of these studies are now in the stage of manuscript preparation. The second half of your sentence is obvious and hence trivial. And once you cut the sentence in half, you notice that perhaps you want to describe what exactly is being written up (presumably the results of (some of) the studies, contributing to some theory you have in mind, and maybe you want to specify the journals and/or time frame for submission (though that depends on the field and the time frame so maybe not). Hard to know from just one sentence without context, maybe you've already described the results, etc. elsewhere.
rising_star Posted December 31, 2015 Posted December 31, 2015 3 hours ago, Syedahum said: Does this sentence make sense? Some of these studies are now in the stage of manuscript preparation, which I look forward to sharing with the scientific community upon publication. It's very vague and thus pretty useless, imo. You may want to specify how many of the studies, what you mean by "stage of manuscript preparation", where these manuscripts might be sent, and what kinds of studies these are. As has already been pointed out, the second half of the sentence is repetitive and unnecessary.
Generic_Applicant Posted December 31, 2015 Author Posted December 31, 2015 Thanks. The context is before and after this sentence which I didn't include so I understand it would be hard to give a fully informed opinion. I was asking more so in terms of syntax. I don't think it is useless, especially given you don't know the context... :/ @fuzzylogician thanks! You're right. The second part is probably redundant. Appreciate the input.
rising_star Posted December 31, 2015 Posted December 31, 2015 Unless you're actually providing information about which studies, what stage of preparation, and where those manuscripts will go, then yea, it is a pretty useless thing to include. Everyone knows that you're going to try to take the research you've done and publish it in journals so why bother saying that if you aren't going to be explicit about it?
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