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? Methods: – In a paper: use Past ? GST proteins were purified as described. – In a grant: use Future ? The fulllength coding region will be excised from the Eco RI site…. 32 Person ? It is perfectly good to use the first person in scientific writing: – We performed HPLC… – We and others have shown….. ? Or the third person: – Jones and colleagues reported that… 33 Redundancy Remove redundancy, verbosity, and all things that are repeated 34 Original sentence from a Chinese colleague Our preliminary data showed that GILZ inhibits both PPAR?2 and C/EBP? transcription, but unlike the inhibition of PPAR?2 which involves the direct binding of GILZ to PPAR?2 promoter (see appended paper). GILZ does not bind to C/EBP? promoter. 35 Changed to: Our preliminary data shows that GILZ inhibits both PPAR?2 and C/EBP? transcription. However, while GILZ inhibits PPAR?2 by directly binding to the PPAR?2 promoter (see appended paper), GILZ does not bind to the C/EBP? promoter. 36 Plain Language in Science 37 Outdated attitude: ? The importance of the work is inversely proportional to the number of people who can understand it.. Science Editor (20xx) 24:194. 38 ? The trend toward plain language is gathering force in government, academe, and scientific journals. ? ? If simple words can be used to convey the message, don’t use fancy words. 39 But….be careful…. ? Do not use informal speech in scientific writing – Not: We got the following results… – Use: We obtained the following results ? Other words not to use: – Not: We got to – Use: We will have to – Not: We can’t conclude.. – Use: