Re: Open Request of Conference Reviewers

From: Peter Fairbrother (zenadsl6186_at_zen.co.uk)
Date: 05/05/04 

Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 23:18:04 +0100

Tom St Denis wrote:

> Joe Peschel wrote:
>> Assume you're the reviewer. You've dumped the papers riddled with
> errors
>> in, say, the first *graf or two. You've still got a pile left, though.
>> Which ones do you choose? So, you dump the papers with some obvious errors.
>> Now, maybe, you can choose which papers elucidate their topics best.
>
> Assume that English is not their first language or that they're not
> English majors. I'm not saying good grammar is bad or inappropriate.
> I'm saying it isn't paramount. Remember that the proceedings are about
> results.

No, proceedings are not about results. Proceedings are about _communicating_
results. The communication is paramount, not the results that don't get
communicated.

Maybe you think the world shouldn't be that way, but it is that way; and you
will come to see that that is in fact the way it should be, when you grow
up.

You can be Einstein, but if no-one understands your results, no-one will
know or care. And you ain't Einstein neither.

Note that a reviewer's English is not in question, and be glad they took the
time to write anything at all. Study it with care, it's the pure quill of
peer-review, and it's almost unobtainable elsewhere.

If one reviewer says you should do something, consider it carefully. If they
all say improve your presentation, then you'll _have_ to do that if you want
to get your papers accepted. The quicker you learn that ... 

-- 
Peter Fairbrother

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