Word omissions

Minimalist writing The use of short, pithy instructions Avoidance of the repetition of instructions Omission of needless words Omission of adverbs Use of short and old words Avoidance of wordy phrases and padded syllables... 

Unfortunately, in the minds of many regulators the word laboratory may conjure up visions of fires, explosions, and highly toxic materials. For that reason, a laboratory planner should be prepared to present the proposed operation in great detail and to answer all questions, even those which may not seem relevant. Any work planned for the future should also be discussed, since the added cost of accommodating for it in the beginning may be just a fraction of what would have to be paid for later modifications. All pertinent facts must be revealed a minor omission could make a big difference in laboratory safety. A laboratory operator who has studied the various rules and regulations with care will have no problem handling such discussions. 

The retrieval of literature has presented difficulties. Frequently, the Tsuji-Trost method is used in multidisciplinary research to perform one step in the preparation of one compound. Because the object of such research is far from the Pd-catalyzed allylation, mention of the corresponding step is absent in the title, the abstract, and the key words. In this review, our intention has been to cover all the available literature, and we have made considerable efforts to do so. However, some readers may note that his or her work has been omitted. If so, this has been inadvertent and we apologize in advance. Moreover, we would be grateful if such omissions were communicated to us. The missing references will be included in future reviews. 

Lavoisier described this experiment to the French Academy a few months later, mentioning not a word of the work of Priestley. In a letter to his friend, Dr. Henry, written on the last day of that memorable year, the English minister felt that Lavoisier ought to have acknowledged that my giving him an account of the air I had got from mercurus calcinatus led him to try what air it yielded, which he did presently after I left. It is difficult to explain this omission, for Lavoisier later acknowledged his indebtedness to Priestley for his work on the composition of nitric acid. 

True subject indexing carefully controlled leads to consistency in an index, and consistency is of much importance. Word indexing leads to omissions, scattering. 

Accuracy in an abstract journal is naturally of interest to users. Mistakes occur, too often it seems to us, but it is fair and perhaps helpful to point out that a good deal of care is exercised and much checking is done to keep abstracts and indexes accurate. The more serious mistakes and omissions discovered are corrected by supplementary abstracts or suitably worded index entries. Minor errors are not corrected, since an abstract journal is filled with secondary information it is not source material. There is no periodic erratum section. The editor invites word from readers who discover significant errors. 

Subjects, not words, are indexed by CA. There is a wide difference. Word indexing leads to omissions, scattering, and unnecessary entries. True subject indexing avoids these defects. Subject indexing means, of course, that the words used in the index may differ from those used in the abstract. For the best results index users must be subject-minded rather than word-minded, so to speak. 

Journal abbreviations are unwelcomed by the literature searcher only when they tend to obscure rather than to disclose the actual title. Confusion in such a citation may arise from a change in the normal word order, such as inversion addition of extra words, such as the society name, place of imprint, or founder unusual contractions or abbreviations of individual words and the complete omission of certain words appearing in the full title. Standard abbreviations have been established from time to time, but as yet no one system of constructing abbreviations may be considered to be truly international. 

Legally written No. As the prescription is for a Schedule 2 controlled drug, additional prescription requirements need to be met before the prescription can be dispensed (see Section 6.3.2). In this case, the form of the prescription item and the quantity of drug to be supplied in both words and figures are missing. Return the prescription form to the prescriber for the addition of the pharmaceutical form and the quantity in words (note, if the only omission was the total quantity in words, the pharmacist could amend this without the need to send the prescription back to the prescriber see Section 6.3.2). 

Drug information shall be fair and trustworthy and may not contain any presentation in words or pictures that directly or indirectly by implication, omission, exaggeration or ambiguity is misleading. This requires ... 

The next aspect (in terms of increasing complexity) is the selection and combination of individual words having a key role in individual clauses, like the subject-verb, subject-verb-object and adjective-noun combinations [25]. Errors in this regard imply incorrect expression of aspects associated both with the immediate content and with the scientific method confusion [25, 26] between systems and processes (4), use of verbs typical of events in relation to objects or to physical quantities, like to occur in relation to rate (5), use of verbs expressing something that the given subject cannot do (6-8), or omission of key words in pairs that need to be coupled to convey a meaning, e.g. the omission of the noun in adjective + noun pairs (state and spin are omitted in (9) and (10) respectively) ... 

The kinds of comments that are inappropriate or useless are those making a severe criticism with no explanation. For example, a reviewer might state that the theory is inappropriate and not useful, yet give no indication whv he or she came to this conclusion. Another comment that is not useful is a criticism of a literature survey or background section for omission of references without an indication of which references may have been overlooked. In other words, general criticisms need to be qualified w ith specific suggestions or comments. 

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