Re: [jox] Re: Multi-rating mode of evaluation / Updating papers
- From: "Mathieu O'Neil" <mathieu.oneil anu.edu.au>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:18:08 +0100
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Hi all
In my view, all published texts have to be be in good English. I dont have a problem with removing "language" from the rating category if that is what people want to do but this would not resolve the problem of what to do with papers written in poor English... Reviewers can indeed suggest improvements but if these improvements are not taken into account, or not sufficiently to my liking, then we are faced with a problem. In my view, unless the article is a groundbreaking masterpiece, it is the author's responsability to present a well-written text. We already discussed in July and agreed about this, I think.
cheers
Mathieu
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From: Stefan Meretz <stefan meretz.de>
Date: Sunday, November 22, 2009 5:03 pm
Subject: Re: [jox] Re: Multi-rating mode of evaluation / Updating papers
To: journal oekonux.org
On 2009-11-22 13:21, graham wrote:
IIRC language was part of the rating, right? This would
discriminate against those who are not so familiar with english
language.
Isn't that a good thing? If an article is in poor English, the
English should be improved. But even in a conventional review
process a reviewer can suggest improvements to the language,
and if
this is likely to be a common issue for us we could always ask
reviewers to pay special attention to this aspect and request that
they offer help if possible.
Indeed, this is a good thing, but then we should put language
out of
rating.
Ciao,
Stefan
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