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Making the most of peer review. Advice from Nature Neuroscience

George D. Gopen and Judith A. Swan. The Science of Scientific Writing. American Scientist 78:550-558, 1990.

• This paper makes the points that
• " to understand how best to improve writing, we would do well to understand better how readers go about reading."
• "Information is interpreted more easily and more uniformly if it is placed where most readers expect to find it"
• Not only does one expect methods in methods sections and results in results sections but one expects a particular order in paragraphs and sentences.