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• How do peer reviewers deal with poor English?
The junior PRs reported having had one paper each that they found too difficult to understand in places but while other papers lacked clarity, they were not too difficult to decipher. Geraldine stated, “I have received a very small handful of papers where the quality of the writing is simply too poor to be able to understand properly.” While the interviews with these PRs cover only a small selection of all peer reviews, these responses suggest that reaching the review stage generally reflects positively on your clarity of your English. Nevertheless...
• Western vs West vs Western world vs Occidental
The concept of Western culture is generally linked to the classical definition of the Western world The “Western world” or the “West” is a term usually referring to different nations, depending on the context, most often including at least part of Europe. There are many accepted definitions about what they all have in common. The Western world is also known as the “Occident” (from Latin: occidens "sunset, West", as contrasted with Orient) (reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_world) In writing, when not just referring to a single country...