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Phone call from one client: "We were very happy with the paper that you
wrote for us. You actually suggested another interesting interpretation of
the data. We are planning on sending you another project."
and
Dear Dr. Buckingham,
Today, I successfully received the edited paper.
Thank you for your excellent editing and valuable advices. My previous
manuscript (I submitted a review article to you for editing in April
2000.)
has been also accepted and published in the end of
last December. I really appreciate your excellent work (and the reasonable
cost, too).
Thank you very much again.
Sincerely yours,
Eizaburo Sasatomi, MD
Received April 25, 2000
Dear Dr. Buckingham,
As a member of the Center for Teaching and Learning of the Swiss
Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich and responsible
person for the training of our faculty I am very interested in your
newsletter on scientific writing. Before I started my new position
here half a year ago, I was doing scientific work in the field of
molecular genetics. During this period of some 15 years I was
regularly publishing the work of my group. It's my opinion that your
newsletter hits quite perfectly what I always tried to teach my
students when they started with their first publication(s). I
consider your newsletter as a highly valuable source of information
for people who plan a publication. All the important things required
for the writing are described in a very precise and condense form.
Recently, I have designed and organized a three day's intense
workshop entitled "Presenting - Publishing - Communicating" for PhD
students at ETH (given in German). In the distributed literature list
I have referred to your newsletter as an important source of
information.
Just one comment where I disagree with the newsletter: in Vol2 No. 1
you suggest to insert a table or a figure into an abstract. Although
this certainly catches the attention of people who are brousing an
abstract booklet, my opinion is that an abstract should contain
nothing but words. The abstract is the part which finds easiest
access to electronic databases consisting mainly of Asci files, and
everything else than words often cannot be introduced in such
databases.
I am looking forward to receiving additional section of the newsletter.
Yours sincerely,
Christian Sengstag
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