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Bookmark or Share- etiquette - Is it appropriate to reply every time to a professor's ...In this sense, an email reply that consists only of "thank you" can be used as an invitation to end an email thread. Saying your "you're welcome" will be read as polite but it might get annoying if it seems like you are always trying to get the last word on every thread. If it's really just "thank you", you can safely skip the reply.
- journals - How long after submission of revisions should you wait ...The clear answer would be: you MAY ask at any time, but I suggest that you wait for the period that usually takes papers in that particular journal to be accepted. This information is, AFAIK, not systematically collected, but many journals publish "Submitted on:" and "Accepted on:" dates with the accepted papers, so it is sufficient to browse ...
- Is it appropriate to add a co-author at the stage revise & resubmit?If you are strong enough to make your own rules, do want you want, at the risks of hitting local habits. So you "can" add a co-author at this stage. A "revise and resubmit" is a new paper. In some fields, this is common practice, but might be borderline inappropriate if you just add a "name" to help the paper go through the next review.
- "Sorry to bother you" in an email? - Academia Stack ExchangeYes, the "Sorry to bother you, but, ..." is filler, but/and is a sort of formulaic politeness, which is its only genuine virtue. If the overall tone of your email is polite, that particular formulaic phrase can be omitted without harm. But/also, if you routinely include such phrases, it's not soooo hard to filter them out. :) –
- What is the point of a lecture when you have a textbook?Say you head to a city in a foreign country where you do not know the language, have no friends, do not have a guide book, maybe just have a map, but most of the words are the local names, and you do not have an idea of what they all mean. Now you could look at that map and resolve to follow every single street until you have walked the entire ...
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