Should proteins be interrogated when they conspire?

ABSTRACT

As a follow up to that wildly popular Editor’s Corner, “Look youse guys and gals, dat just ain’t right” published in 2021, I have put together a follow-up guide to some common grammatical mistakes that I encounter in papers submitted to Autophagy. This guide is meant in particular to help non-native English speakers write more clearly but may also be of benefit to other authors who grew up at a time when learning grammar was replaced by autocorrect functions in Word and other programs, or the desire to simplify sentences so that they fit within a tweet, or to ease thumb strain when typing on a smartphone. The guide is also meant to help editors by reducing the number of changes needed to bring papers up to the high standards of clarity that we strive to maintain at Autophagy.

KEYWORDS:

• Autophagy
• grammar
• it’s all about clarity
• meaning what you write
• writing what you mean

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

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Funding

This work was supported by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences [GM131919].