学术论文写作-Unit8

EnglishAcademicWritingforGraduateStudents东南大学外国语学院制作UnitEightAcknowledgements&SubmissionUnitEightTounderstandthecomponentsofanacknowledgement;Towriteanacknowledgement;Towriteasubmissioncoverletter.LearningObjectivesUnitEight•Doyouneedtowriteanacknowledgementinyourpaper？Whyorwhynot?•Howwouldyourpaperbeprocessedaftersubmission?•Whatshouldyouwriteinthe

coverletterwhensubmittingthepaper?I.Warm-upUnitEight1.ListtheinformationelementsthatyoushouldincludeinAcknowledgmentsofajournalpaperbasedonSampleReading1.II.SampleReadingUnitEight2.ListtheinformationelementsofasubmissioncoverletterbasedonSampleReading2.UnitEight3.FillintheblanksaccordingtotheChineseclueinthebrackets.Theauthorswouldliketothank/thank(感谢)thepatientswhoparticipated/wereinvolved/wererecruited（参与）inthestudy.Wewouldalsoliketoshowourgratitude（感激）toDr.Jean-FredericColombel(co-directoroftheFeinsteinIBDCenter,MountSinaiHospital,NewYork,NY)forinvaluablediscussionsandinsightsonCrohn’sdisease,andwethank3“anonymous”reviewers(匿名评审员)fortheirdetailedcomments(修回意见).Wearealsoimmenselygratefulto（感激）Dr.EmilieGrasset(PrecisionImmunologyInstitute,IcahnSchoolofMedicineatMountSinai,NewYork,NY)forherexpertise(专长)anddiscussiononanearlierversionofthemanuscript(稿子).Thisresearchispartiallysupported

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K23CareerDevelopmentAward(K23KD111995-01A1).UnitEightPolitenessPolitenessinletter/e-mailwritinginvolvestakingintoaccountthecorrespondent’sfeelings.III.LanguageFocusUnitEightTasksThefollowingsentencesaretakenfromreviewers’comments.Makeapoint-by-pointresponsetothecommentswithreferencetotheexpressionslistedinthetableabove.1)TheentiremanuscriptneedstobeeditedforproperuseoftheEnglishlanguageandsyntax.WearereallysorryfortheinappropriateEnglishlanguageuse.WehaveaskedanEnglishexpertconsultanttoproofreadthepaper.2)Checkinstructionsforauthorsfortherequiredjournalformatforreferringtothepublishedliterature.Weareverysorryforourincorrectreferencetopublishedliterature,andcheckedinstructionsforauthorsfortherequiredjournalformatandcorrectthereferenceaccordingly.

3)Avoidtheuseof±toexpressvariation.Wehavemadecorrectionaccordingtothereviewer’scommentsontheuseof±toexpressvariation,andchangedittomean(SD).UnitEight4)Thesamplesizeofincludedstudiesmaybeshownintheforestplots(Figure2).Thankyouforraisingthispoint.ThesamplesizehasbeenaddedtotheforestplotsinFigure2.

5)Methods:Thereferencestandardinvestigations(“goldstandard”investigationforfinaldiagnosis)usedinthestudiesmaybebrieflydescribed.Wehavemovedthesectiononthedescriptionofgoldstandardfromtheappendixtothemainbodyofthemanuscript.UnitEight2.FillintheblanksaccordingtotheChineseinformationinthebrackets.1)Thankyouforraisingthispoint/pointingitout.2)Pleaseletmeknow3)Pleasefindattachedthemanuscript.4)I’dappreciateit5)assuggestedbythereviewer/accordingtothereviewer’scomment

UnitEightA.WritingasubmissioncoverletterB.WritingareplytothedecisionletterIV.AcademicWritingSkillsUnitEightA.WritingasubmissioncoverletterIV.AcademicWritingSkillsThesubmissioncoverlettergivesthefirstimpressionofyourpaperanditmayhelptheeditor-in-chieftomakeadecisionaboutwhetheryourpapercanbepublished.Task:Writeasubmissioncoverletterforyourownmanuscript.YoucanrefertoSampleReading2.UnitEight

B.Writingareplytothedecisionletter1.Fillintheblanksbasedonthedecisionletter.Decision:majorrevisionTheauthorshould:1)makepoint-by-pointrevisionaccordingtothereviewers'comments;2)checkspellingandformatinthemainbodyandthereferences;3)highlightthechangeinthe"trackchange"mode;4)uploadandresubmitthepaper.IV.AcademicWritingSkillsUnitEight2.Writeareplytothedecisionletter.DearEditor-in-chief,Wearegratefultotheeditorsandreviewersfortheirtimeandconstructivecommentsonourmanuscript.Wehaveimplementedtheircommentsandsuggestionsandwishtosubmitarevisedversionofthemanuscriptforfurtherconsiderationofpublicationinthejournal.Changesintheinitialversionofthemanuscriptareeitherhighlightedforaddedsentencesorstrikethroughfordeletedsentencesintherevisedversion.Below,wealsoprovideapoint-by-point