Avoid the use of “respectively”，尽量不要用“respectively”
Respectively obliges the reader to stop and reread the sentence，这个词会让人停下来，重新读一遍句子.
看看这个句子：
Phytate reduction in wheat, rye, barley with and without hulls incubated with 40 g water/100 g cereal for 24 hours at 55 °C was 45, 56, 48 and 77%, respectively.
哪四个对应哪四个呢？
修改一下就很容易看明白了：
After incubation with 40 g water/100 g cereal for 24 hours at 55 °C, phytate reduction in wheat was 45%; in rye, 56%; in barley with hulls, 48%; and in barley without hulls, 77%.
Prevalence and incidence
Prevalence refers to the total number of cases of a disease or condition existing at a specific time.
Incidence refers to the number of new cases that develop over a specific time.
Noun clusters and modifiers,名词串与修饰词
这句话，Pig liver transplant woman dies，看起来确实不顺，
怎么修改呢？
The woman with a transplanted pig liver has died.
再看一句：Rabbit anti-mouse spleen cell serum
如果修改成 Anti-mouse serum of rabbits immunized with cells of mouse spleen . . . 就比较容易理解了。
这种名词串作为修饰的使用倒不是不可以，只要仍够清晰的表达自己的意思，而且让读者第一眼感到理解困难就可以了。
不过还是小心用吧…
初识evernote
在研究论文写作的时候，无意间发现作者的SOFTWARE SUGGESTIONS里面有这个东东：
Lab Notebook/Diary
• EverNote (EverNote Corp) [can be downloaded from: http://www.evernote.com/]
第一次听说，不过还是下载了安装吧。
55M的样子，当时下载的版本是Evernote_3.1.0.1034
安装上以后，发现全英文的，虽然喜欢新玩意，不过刚开始还实在没头绪，什么时候有空慢慢研究一下。
01.02 DNA Illustrates the Interplay Between Form and Function
01. DNA is made from the building blocks adenine, guanine, cytosine, and thymine.
02. The DNA backbone is made from repeating sugar-phosphate units.
03. 2 bonds formed between A and T; 3 hydrogen bonds formed between G and C.
04. The structure of DNA described by Watson and Crick: a double helix composed of two interwined strands arranged such that the sugar-phophate bacebone lies on the outside and the bases on the inside.
05. What is the significance of hydrogen bonding in biochemical structures?
They are weak enough to be reversibly broken in biochemical processes, yet they are strong enough, when many form simultaneously, to help stabilize specific structures such as the double helix.