Language problems

We often see the same language problems over and over again in the manuscripts we receive. Here we discuss some of the more common problem categories.

• Administer versus treat
• Articles
• British versus American spelling
• Centrifugation speed versus centrifugal force
• Data
• Designating sex
• -Fold, times larger, times smaller, and times fewer
• Gender versus sex
• Gratuitous phrases
• Passive voice versus active voice
• Redundancy
• Respectively
• The serial comma
• Tense

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