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Planning/writing your paper
Response to Reviewers!!!!!!!!
• Read the reviewers comments when they first arrive, then file away and look again 2-3 days later; comments always look ‘better’ on second reading
• THE REVIEWER IS ALWAYS RIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• Always respond positively (not dissmissively)
• Be respectful (they gave up their time to review)
• Refute only with sound science and reasoning, nothing else will convince
• Compromise is not a failure!
• Remember: You are being given a second chance, an opportunity to improve your MS. Think of comments this way and you will respond positively
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