Look youse guys and gals, dat just ain’t right

ABSTRACT

When I invite authors to submit a punctum to Autophagy, my e-mail includes the following: “Note for international authors: I would like to point out that I personally edit all the puncta for accuracy, but also for English grammar and spelling. I make this point to all international authors as I do not want you to worry extensively about the writing. As a native English speaker, it is easy for me to make small changes of this nature.” I do not claim to be an expert in English grammar; however, I am indeed a native English speaker, I read a lot, and I am even fond of using the dictionary (both hard copy and online). Also, I do a lot of editing. Thus, I thought I would share some common mistakes to help reduce the required edits for papers that are submitted to Autophagy.

KEYWORDS:

• Autophagy
• English
• grammar
• spelling
• writing

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

Additional information

Funding

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