Received an email this morning

Dear Dawn M. Allenbach,

We have received the reports from our advisors on your manuscript, "Improving Fluctuating Asymmetry Studies Using Recommendations From a Fish Literature Review", which you submitted to Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries.

Based on the advice received, I feel that your manuscript could be reconsidered for publication should you be prepared to incorporate major revisions. When preparing your revised manuscript, you are asked to carefully consider the reviewer comments which are attached, and submit a list of responses to the comments.

. . .

Your revision is due on: 29 Jul 2010

We look forward to receiving your revised manuscript within eight weeks.

With kind regards,
J.N.
Editor in Chief


It's gonna be a lot of work, but . . .

::happy Dawn dance::

Mom was right. Third time was the charm!

One more time!

I just submitted my manuscript to Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries. This is the THIRD journal to whom I've submitted this tome, so here's hoping that "third time's a charm."

Statistics

It probably WOULD go more quickly if I plugged numbers into Excel, wrote a couple of simple equations, and hit "enter," but . . .

1. I hate flipping back and forth between Excel pages. If I calculate on paper, I can keep the pertinent data on the computer screen and just glance up at what I need.

2. It's actually a fairly simple statistic to calculate.

3. Calculating the statistic by hand actually helps me understand what it means. This understanding, methinks, will come in handy when I go write up the data in the manuscript.

4. Writing keeps my fingers "agile" and able to work properly.