Chapter 157 The level is too high and cannot be revised
Meng Heming instinctively felt that the paper that was written out in three days must be shoddy and at best the level of a popular science composition.
“Zhang Wei is still too young, and he made the same mistakes that young people make. As soon as he made the results, he couldn’t wait to show them off, and he was too eager to achieve success.”
< br>Thinking of this, Meng Heming said: "I say Zhang Wei, when we engage in scientific research, we still have to be patient, and we must not be eager for success! Especially the paper, which is the embodiment of scientific research results, must be written carefully. You must polish every word and paragraph carefully, and you can’t just write it casually.”
“Director Meng, don’t you think that I wrote this paper casually? After all, he has published a paper in Science. How important is the paper? You should read the content of the paper first!" Zhang Wei said with a smile.
"How rigorous can the paper you wrote in three days be? I'm not telling you, when we do scientific research, we must respect objective facts!"
Meng Heming said and took a look at the title of the paper. , then said: "Inhibition of RNA recognition by Toll-like receptors: the impact of nucleoside modification and future application directions. Your title is quite big. You not only introduce the scientific research results, but also discuss future application directions!"
Then Meng Heming began to read the content of the paper carefully.
After reading a few lines, Meng Heming's expression gradually became serious.
As a top scholar in the country, Meng Heming has read countless papers. Meng Heming can tell at a glance whether the papers are shoddy.
The paper Zhang Wei submitted now is very rigorous in terms of grammar and wording. After reading a few paragraphs, I can't find any faults.
There is nothing wrong with the grammar, which only shows that the English level is not bad, but the wording is also very rigorous. This not only represents a certain academic ability, but also shows that the paper has been polished.
The narrative mode of the paper is different from that of ordinary speech. It must be described accurately without any ambiguity or confusion. Therefore, long sentences containing a large number of professional vocabulary often appear.
To submit a paper to a high-level journal, you must not only describe it accurately, but also describe it simply, making every word useful and almost no useless words.
In other words, those long sentences that contain a lot of professional vocabulary are not only free of nonsense, but also the result of simplification.
Even for native English speakers, if you want to do this, you need to spend a lot of thought, careful conception, and revision over and over again.
This is equivalent to asking us Chinese to write an article in classical Chinese, and this article must still be a memorial to the emperor.
People with ordinary education levels will definitely not be able to write it. They have to be knowledgeable people who have read poetry and books. And even if these knowledgeable people write it, they must consider and modify it word by word before it can be formed.
You can imagine Li Si's "Remonstrance and Expulsion of Guests", Zhuge Liang's "Departure from the Army", Li Mi's "Chen Qing Biao", or Hai Rui's "Public Security Shu". How much effort does it take to write these things? I don’t know how many times it took to modify it before it took shape.
A chapter like Passing a Pass has 3,000 words, 2,900 words of nonsense, and 100 words of cuteness. The emperor will be beheaded after reading this.
A high-level paper is like writing a memorial. When it is put into writing, it is different from speaking in daily life, and every sentence and every word must be useful.
It is difficult for a foreigner whose native language is English to write a high-quality paper, and it must be written by someone with a high level of education.
At this time, Meng Heming had only read less than a third of the paper, but the choice of words and the precision of the narrative told him that this was a fine paper.
“This paper is really rigorously written. At first glance, there is no problem with the presentation at all. How could he write it to this extent in three days? How did he do it? "Arrived!"
As Meng Heming read the paper, his expression became more and more surprised. He became increasingly confused. How could Zhang Wei write such a high-level paper in just three days!
Even scholars whose native language is English cannot do this, not to mention that Zhang Wei’s native language is not English.
This is completely unreasonable!
But the facts are right in front of us. Even if something is unreasonable, as long as it happens in reality, its rationality cannot be questioned.
Finally, Meng Heming finished reading most of the previous parts of the paper, that is, the part about nucleoside-modified mRNA. At this time, he already had a high opinion of this paper.
Meng Heming did not continue to read the content about the future application direction of mRNA technology, but started reading the content of the paper from the beginning.
The first time is just to take a rough look at what the paper is about and what kind of scientific research results are introduced, but the second time is to carefully dismantle the content of the paper.
After all, Meng Heming just boasted about Haikou and said that he would help Zhang Wei revise it. Wouldn't it be embarrassing if he couldn't provide any opinions and suggestions?
However, when Meng Heming read it again word for word, he suddenly discovered that the wording was very accurate and the narration was precise, but he still couldn't find any faults. Since I can't find any fault with the sentences, I can only fault it from an academic perspective.
Meng Heming felt that he was the director of the Biology Department of Tsinghua University after all, and his academic ability must be much better than Zhang Wei, a biology rookie. My English skills are not as good as yours, and my academic level is How can I be worse than you!
So for the third time, Meng Heming planned to find some areas for improvement from the perspective of biological science.
The result is still that I can't find any place where I can make suggestions and opinions.
"What's going on? I can't find any place to give advice in this entire article! Is it possible that I'm not as good as Zhang Wei academically? I've been a professor for so many years for nothing!"
A professor from the Biology Department of Tsinghua University can’t even correct a freshman’s thesis!
Meng Heming only felt that his confidence was hit. He could not accept such an outrageous result at all.
This paper on nucleoside modification was originally published in the American journal "Immunity". This journal is also a SCI, Zone 1 journal. It is an authoritative journal in the field of immunology, with an impact factor as high as 19.734.
Being able to publish in a journal of this level, the quality of the paper is beyond words. Apart from anything else, given the level of the Department of Biology at Tsinghua University at that time, if he could publish an article in "Immunity", it would be very remarkable and worth bragging about.
Although the two scholars who published this paper at the time had not yet won the Nobel Prize, one was an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania and the other was a senior researcher at the University of Pennsylvania.
The University of Pennsylvania is one of the top universities in the United States. If you can become an associate professor there, your academic level will definitely exceed 99.99% of the scholars in the world. Papers published by scholars of this level will naturally be of extremely high quality.
It is no exaggeration to say that with the academic level of Chinese scholars at that time, even those with academician titles may not be able to apply for the position of associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
If you want to revise a paper for someone else, the premise is that your academic level is higher than that of the other person. If your academic level is not as good as others, how can you revise your paper?
This is the situation Meng Heming is currently encountering.
Although Meng Heming, a professor in the Department of Biology of Tsinghua University, is considered a top scholar in China, he can only be considered a top scholar in the country. If it is taken internationally, Meng Heming's academic level is still far from the top in the world. of.
After all, it was 2004. Chinese universities and scientific research institutions were far behind developed countries such as Europe, the United States and Japan, and the academic level of Chinese scholars was also lagging behind those of the same level in Europe, the United States and Japan.
Especially in basic theoretical research, the gap is much larger than in applied research.
At this time, Meng Heming's expression had completely froze. Just now he had been shouting that he wanted to help Zhang Wei correct his paper! Only when I submitted the paper did I realize that I couldn’t make any changes at my level!
The dignified head of the Department of Biology at Tsinghua University was academically discredited by his own students!
And the student who blew himself up is not a doctoral candidate, but a freshman!
Who can I ask to explain this!
A sense of frustration rose up from Meng Heming's heart, like a cold north wind, spreading silently throughout his body. Under this sense of frustration, Meng Heming's heart actually soared. I felt a little confused, as if I was alone in a desolate desert and couldn't find any direction.
"The results were produced before the funding was available, which I can barely accept; after the results were produced, the paper was written in three days, which I can also tolerate; but the paper is of such high quality , This is too much! I am the head of the Biology Department of Qingdao University, and I am a respected scholar, you can’t bully me like this!”
The next second, Meng Heming looked at Zhang Wei again, as if You must carefully identify who this young man in front of you is!
"Is this the real genius?" Meng Heming thought to himself.
Having been a professor at Tsingta University for most of his life, Meng Heming has seen many so-called geniuses, and the excellence of many geniuses really makes Meng Heming amazed!
But now it seems that those geniuses are simply retarded compared to Zhang Wei!
"Director Meng, don't look at me like that, it makes me feel shy!" Zhang Wei lowered his head shyly.
"Did it really take you three days to write this paper?" Meng Heming asked subconsciously.
“No!” Zhang Wei shook his head.
"Let me just say, how could a paper of this quality only take three days? I must have been prepared for it." Meng Heming felt a little more comfortable.
Zhang Wei said with a Versailles look on his face: "I recently signed up to learn a driver's license. I went to line up to take the first subject yesterday. I went to the computer room to practice the mock test in the morning and took the test again in the afternoon. I was absent all day. School. So it took me two days to write this paper!”
"Two days! Can you write such a paper in two days?" Meng Heming grinned, and the frustration in his heart increased by three points.
"I'm so idle, why am I asking this? Isn't this just making me feel troubled!"
(End of this chapter)