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- Tue Aug 16, 2011 3:39 pm
- Forum: Questions About Rejections
- Topic: Careless reviewers
- Replies: 8
- Views: 8705
Re: Careless reviewers
I think i'm all done reviewing anything here. I've published more words in national glossy magazines than your entire staff. I've learned my lesson here.
- Tue Aug 16, 2011 1:25 pm
- Forum: Questions About Rejections
- Topic: Careless reviewers
- Replies: 8
- Views: 8705
Re: Careless reviewers
Just had a quick look at this, and it seems that you wrote "patience" and the editors asked you to change it to "patients." Here's the sentence in question: "Upon further investigation he discovered that he had even lost patience that couldn’t stand waiting in his waiting r...
- Tue Aug 16, 2011 1:21 pm
- Forum: Questions About Rejections
- Topic: Careless reviewers
- Replies: 8
- Views: 8705
Re: Careless reviewers
Wow! I knew you guys were unprofessional right away, but to add typos instead of admitting you are wrong is simply outrageous. My copy on my computer has the correct word.
- Tue Aug 16, 2011 11:28 am
- Forum: Questions About Rejections
- Topic: Disagreement on word choice
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4563
Re: Disagreement on word choice
Here is another example of the editor either being completely careless or ignorant. The sentence was correct in the first example and then "corrected" to be wrong. Incorrect use of a grammar checker is clearly the problem.
- Tue Aug 16, 2011 10:09 am
- Forum: Questions About Rejections
- Topic: Careless reviewers
- Replies: 8
- Views: 8705
Careless reviewers
My article was rejected because of "typos" one of which, according to the person who rejected it, was that i miss-wrote "patients" instead of "patience." But I meant more than one patient! Obviously the reviewer used a simple grammar checker and either did not read or d...