时光不矜持txt下书包网:【转】语言关难过，文章被拒

感觉自己英语还可以，语言关竟然还没过。晾出来，大家可吸取教训。

期望哪个英语高手，行业高手，海归帮我仔细分析分析。

Dear XXX

Thank you for submitting your work to Journal of XXX.

Before we pass on manuscripts to the Journal Editor, who is responsible for the scientific assessment, we perform an initial check against formal technical criteria (structure of submission, adherence to the Guide for Authors and English language usage).

We regret to inform you that your manuscript has FAILED the initial formal technical criteria assessment.

(1) USE OF ENGLISH

In its current state, the level of English throughout your manuscript does not meet the journal's required standard. The language is too elementary. Authors have the responsibility to present papers in good English which can be understood by the journal's readership. If reviewers cannot understand your work as easily as possible, the acceptance possibility of your article will be lowered greatly.

We will NOT consider a revised version of your manuscript, unless it has received a complete re-writing to improve the level of English. For help with English language usage and quality, we strongly advise you to consult a professional language editing service. For more information please see our Language Polishing page at http://www.elsevier.com/languagepolishing.

(2) STRUCTURE AND COMPLETENESS

Your manuscript is NOT in accordance with every aspect listed within the author guidelines. Your manuscript should include, but not be limited to, the comments mentioned below.

FAIL: LANGUAGE

1) Ensure that the whole article is prepared in English. Do not include Chinese characters.

2) Pages should be numbered consecutively.

3) Figures should not be embedded in the main text.

(3) FINAL WORD

If you thoroughly revise your manuscript in accordance with what is stated above in (1) and (2) we welcome you to resubmit it, however, we will again check your manuscript for adherence to technical criteria. Passing this is not a guarantee that your submission will subsequently proceed to the peer review process, which is a decision to be made at the sole discretion of the Editor.

Yours sincerely,

Emer O'Connor
Journal Manager
Journal of XXX

我没有看到你的英语论文稿件。但是，根据我长年翻译和校对英语科技论文的实践来看，从外国编辑所提的问题中，我可以推断你的英语语言表达不畅。外国编辑是这样说的：The language is too elementary. 我估计你的论文中的用词和句式太层次太低了。打个比喻，相当于你用小学生的中文表达方式向科学出版社权威杂志去投稿。没有用高层次的学术英语来思维。外国编辑就你这个问题，他提出了一种解决方案，即a complete re-writing to improve the level of English，也就是说，你需要用英语来思维，重新改写文字，适合英语读者的阅读习惯。 为此，他建议你的文章让Elsevier出版社负责文字修饰的写作人员来修改。估计是要收费的。不过他最后提醒你，即使文字过关了，也不能保证你的文章一定可以发表。你文章的内容还需要相关专家审阅。

我所教的学生四六级、GRE全都通过，但是，他们中大多数在英语写作时所碰到的问题与你差不多。这大概是中国应试教学的一个结果。