How Peer Editing can benefit your Scientific Manuscript

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How Peer Editing can Benefit your Scientific
Manuscript
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• Peer editing is a technique used in manuscript
  and scientific writing. People engaged in peer
  editing draft their manuscripts and provide each
  other with valuable suggestions for improvement.
• The technique can be used at any point in the
  writing process formulation of ideas,
  constructing an outline, draft revision, or copy
  editing of the final draft.

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How does the Peer Editing Process Work?

• The instructors of peer editing ask all authors
  to bring in their copies of a draft, distribute
  them for marking up, and have editors sign and
  return them to the author right away.
• However, papers have the risk of getting lost
  sometimes, especially the rough drafts which are
  full of errors variously caught by the peers. In
  such a case, web-based collaborative writing
  tools work better for some peer editing
  situations.

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Pros and Cons of Peer Editing
Peer editing has many benefits in scientific
manuscript editing 

• You gain confidence in your work by having others
  working in your niche read it and provide
  comments prior to the journal.
• Editing by peers can help you identify problems
  in your own writing. Plus, other authors get a
  firsthand experience as to how it feels and what
  it takes to assess writing critically, rather
  than just relying on the journals editing
  process to find all the mistakes.

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• When you know that your manuscript will be read
  by your peers, it gives you a chance to write for
  a broader audience than just the journal. This
  encourages better planning about providing
  context for the topic at hand.
• Manuscript written with peers in mind stands a
  better chance of being livelier and more engaging
  than papers written solely for an authority
  figure.
• Peer editing teaches each author to act as a
  teacher reviewing others work and forces them to
  act expertly.

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However, peer editing has some pitfalls too

• Peers when asked to review others work often
  focus more on grammatical improvements and other
  trivial errors rather than on other aspects of
  the writing process.
• Peers are often too polite to offer constructive
  criticism to each other. On the other hand, some
  peers may occasionally go into an attack dog
  mode and provide comments out of frustration or
  jealousy. Thus, a balanced approach to productive
  criticism should be defined at the outset of a
  peer editing exercise.

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• As said earlier, an online peer editing
  environment provides documents which are visible
  to the whole class (rather than just the author
  and the editor). This may spur an overly humble
  or aggressive tone.
• Peers may sometimes identify with the ideas the
  author is posing rather than comment on the
  clarity of the argument.
• Occasionally a peer may suggest a correction
  which when followed actually weakens the quality
  of the paper.

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Tips for Peer Editing Exercises

• Create a separate schedule or consider blocking
  off time for in-class peer editing. This is often
  required to bring seriousness and concentration
  to the activity. It also allows you to put good
  habits in place and manage all the tasks
  of scientific manuscript writing well.
• Provide your peers with a model of editing, or a
  set of codes to use in the process. This allows
  them to steer attention away from the trivial
  matters and focus on more significant and
  critical engagement with your paper.

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• Additionally, ask your peers to submit short
  editorial notes addendum to your final draft.
  This document must incorporate high points from
  the peer editing process and critique the
  feedback that they received.
• If you have several papers to be published and
  opt for peer editing sessions for each, make sure
  that you submit different documents to different
  editors each time.

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• Peer editing can be a boon to your scientific
  editing process provided your peers know the set
  of codes or the protocol you follow for the
  process.
• Otherwise, it can be a sheer waste of time and
  can also spoil the hard work you put in writing
  your manuscript. If you are looking, professional
  scientific editor reaches us at
  Cognibrain scientific editing services company.

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