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be. You might also ask a scientist working in a different field to read your paper and to point out words and phrases
he or she doesn't understand. This is perhaps the easiest way to identify the jargon that may be present in your
manuscript. In addition, ask someone whose knowledge of English is reasonably expert to read the manuscript. In
short, the ideal in-house "peer review" of your manuscript would include review by (1) a scientist working in your
field, (2) a scientist working in an unrelated field, and (3) a person highly competent in English. Careful management
of this presubmission process is likely to improve the chances of acceptance by the journal.
Expect to sweat a bit, if you haven't already done so. As the Instructions to Authors of the Journal of General
Microbiology once put it, "Easy reading is curst hard writing."

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