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Date Posted: Sun, Dec 24 2000, 4:59:30
Author: Your Computer
Subject: Glossary For Research Papers

(This is one of those xeroxes® you keep seeing in your desk drawer. No idea where it originated.)

GLOSSARY FOR RESEARCH PAPERS

Strictly Speaking

THEY WRITE |THEY MEAN

It has long been known that... |I haven't bothered to look up
|the original reference

...of great theoretical and practical |...interesting to me
importance

While it has not been possible to |The experiments didn't work
provide definite answers to these |out, but I figured I could at
questions. |least get a publication out
|of it.

The W-Pb system was chosen as |The fellow in the next lab had
especially suitable to show the |some already made up
predicted behavior...

High purity... |Composition unknown except
Very high purity... |for the exaggerated claims of
Extremely high purity... |the supplier
Super-purity...
Spectroscopically pure...

A fiducial reference line... |A scratch

Three of the samples were |The results of the others
chosen for detailed study... |didn't make sense and were
|ignored..

...handled with extreme care during |...not dropped on the floor
the experiments

Typical results are shown... |The best results are shown...

Although some detail has been lost |It is impossible to tell from
in reproduction, it is clear from the |the micrograph
original micrograph that...

Presumably at longer times... |I didn't take the time to find
|out

The agreement with the predicted |fair
curve is excellent

good |poor

satisfactory |doubtful

fair |imaginary

...as good as could be expected |non-existent

These results will be reported at |I might get around to this
a later date |sometime

The most reliable values are those |He was a student of mine
of Jones

It is suggested that...
It is believed that... |I think...
It may be that...

It is generally believed that.... |I have such a good objection
|to this answer that I shall
|now raise it.

It is clear that much additional |I don't understand it
work will be required before a
complete understanding...

Unfortunately, a quantitative theory |Neither does anybody else
to account for these effects has not
been formulated

Correct within an order of magnitude |Wrong

It is to be hoped that this work |This paper isn't very good but
will stimulate further work in the field |neither are any of the others
|on this miserable subject

Thanks are due to Joe Glotz for |Glotz did the work and Doe
assistance with the experiments and |explained what it meant.
to John Doe for valuable discussions.

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