A colleague recently shared a review of his (rejected) proposal. The most negative review contained this statement:
Now I need to know: have you ever
Did you think, "Oh well, the reviewer is just bashing out a review on a webform and of course shouldn't be held to their own high standards for punctuation in proposals. Perhaps that missing comma on page 10 of the proposal indicates that I am a sloppy and untransformative scientist and therefore didn't deserve a grant that would have supported student research."
Or did you think something a bit more negative about the reviewer's punctuated hypocrisy?
There were a number of editorial errors found throughout the proposal. Some were missing commas and the like,The mind, like, boggles.
Now I need to know: have you ever
- commented on punctuation in a review? (minor errors, egregious errors, pet peeves?) -- did it affect your overall rating of the proposal, as far as you know?
- received a comment on punctuation in a review? (minor errors, egregious errors, pet peeves?)
Did you think, "Oh well, the reviewer is just bashing out a review on a webform and of course shouldn't be held to their own high standards for punctuation in proposals. Perhaps that missing comma on page 10 of the proposal indicates that I am a sloppy and untransformative scientist and therefore didn't deserve a grant that would have supported student research."
Or did you think something a bit more negative about the reviewer's punctuated hypocrisy?
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