[Hps] Volunteer to read the ECal HPS article

Gabriel CHARLES charlesg at ipno.in2p3.fr
Thu Jan 12 09:11:37 EST 2017


Dear HPS collaborators,

    A referee for the ECal/NIM paper states that the English language 
needs to be revised in depth. He/she gave some instances which were 
corrected according to his/her wishes. We are somewhat surprised. True 
the paper results from several contributions by different authors and it 
might lack some homogeneity in style, in spite of our editing efforts. 
Nevertheless, one of us (MG) wrote several papers and never had such 
comments. More importantly, the manuscript was re-read/corrected by some 
distinguished collaborators, native speakers: Nathan, John, Larry,.... 
Together with detailed, optional, corrections from John and Larry, we 
had comments like: " found it well written, informative, and very good" 
and " excellent.  I have a few very minor suggestions and corrections.  
You may ignore any or all of them". We cannot help thinking that the 
referee was prejudiced when seeing that the corresponding  authors are 
not native speakers.

    In any case, we are now looking for a new volunteer within the whole 
HPS collaboration, well versed in the English language, to take a fresh 
look at this paper and make all necessary corrections to the style and 
wording. This contribution would be very much appreciated (and 
acknowledged at the end of the paper if not already co-author).

Have a nice day,
-- 
Michel & Gabriel


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