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Page 1 Accepts, the Rest Avoids Rejection

Then, to make sure our paper isn’t rejected, we’ll do due diligence in the rest of it by including stuff like baselines, ablations, statistical significance, and human evaluation. The more obvious reasons for rejection have to do with completeness: “you didn’t compare against method X.” But those are often used as objective crutches to justify a gut decision based on lack of clarity. You’d think there’d be no need for such antics in a scientific research paper, yet dull obtuse prose can scare off readers, obscure the message, and deflate the contribution’s impact.

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