Chapter 178 I heard that you want to help me with this paper?
Senior Brother Liu called several other experimenters together.
"I just received the news that the paper on Gene Scissors has been completed, and we are looking for reviewers." Senior Brother Liu said with a serious face.
“Have you finished writing? It’s been less than a week, right? Brother Liu, you must be kidding! You can’t even complete the framework of the thesis in one week, let alone write a thesis!”
"Do you think I would be joking about this kind of thing? People at the Intellectual Property Center have already started to apply for patents." Senior Brother Liu snorted coldly.
"It can't be so fast! It takes a month at the fastest to write a paper. Could it be that Zhang Wei has another team dedicated to writing papers?"
"What are you thinking? If so. , We have heard about it a long time ago, how can we keep it a secret?”
“That’s not right, Zhang Wei wrote it alone? How could he finish the paper without our help? "
"Yes, even if he really finished writing the paper, he still has to show it to us first. We have all gone through the entire experimental process. If it is not checked and revised by us, there will definitely be many mistakes. Can this paper be published?”
“But the reality is that Zhang Wei sent this paper without even looking at it!” Brother Liu said with a cold face and an angry tone.
"How could he do this! We have all contributed to the project. How can we not ask for our opinions if we want to publish a paper?"
"After the first draft of the paper is written, it needs to be discussed among the entire project team , isn’t this a necessary process?”
Everyone said and looked at Liu Qian.
"Liu Qian, you were in Zhang Wei's group for the previous nucleoside modification project. Did he let you read it before he published the paper?" someone immediately asked.
"No." Liu Qian shook her head.
"I haven't shown it to you? Then you just forget about it?"
"We used to do odd jobs in the laboratory. It was our first time to do a project. We didn't know that after the paper was finished, we still had to give it to you. Let's see." Liu Qian said weakly.
“You said that Zhang Wei doesn’t know whether he should discuss it within the project team after the paper is written?”
“He has already published it in Science, why? Maybe he doesn’t know? I think he looks down on us!” Senior Brother Liu’s tone became even more dissatisfied.
“Even if he is the project leader, we are all just experimenters, but we should have the most basic respect!”
"Call Zhang Wei here, we must let him give an explanation!"
"Yes, call Zhang Wei and confront him face to face!"
Everyone began to be filled with indignation.
Especially those three Ph.D.s have worked on projects with their supervisors for so many years. Even their supervisors would bring their papers to discuss with them, and even let them be responsible for part of the contents of the papers. He would never be like Zhang Wei, who sent the paper without saying a word.
This is too disrespectful!
The top academics at Tsingta University are all the proud ones of heaven, the best among men, and they still have their tempers.
The more capable people are, the more they need "respect".
There is an old saying that "a scholar can be killed but not humiliated", which is certainly familiar to everyone. Those who say that if you give me ten times the overtime pay, I can work the company until it goes bankrupt, you are 100% not a "gentleman", you are just a little Karami who works for money.
Look at Han Xin, give him a handsome seal, he can give you a piece of the country, even though he was played to death by Empress Lu, he did not betray Liu Bang.
Is it because Han Xin has no courage? Or is it because Han Xin is incapable? It's not because Liu Bang gave him enough respect back then!
If you look at history, you will find that there are two types of people who would rather die than surrender. One is the truly capable person, and the other is the real fool. And the one who can leave his name in history will definitely not be the latter.
……
When Zhang Wei was called to the office, he didn’t know what happened.
"Hey, are you all here? Are you giving me a surprise?" Zhang Wei asked with a smile.
"Zhang Wei, have you finished writing the paper for our project?" Senior Brother Liu asked first.
"Yes, I finished writing it the day before yesterday or the day before yesterday." Zhang Wei nodded.
"Is it finished? What happens next?" Senior Brother Liu asked next.
“I took it to Director Meng for a look. Director Meng thought it was pretty good and was ready to publish it. He contacted Professor Shi Yigong and asked him to be a reviewer. Professor Shi Yigong is also a researcher. Molecular biology is relatively authoritative in this aspect," Zhang Wei explained calmly.
Senior Brother Liu suddenly looked angry: "How can you just publish it?"
"The paper has been written, why can't it be published?"
"But we haven't seen it yet!"
"Why should I show it to you first?" Zhang Wei deliberately pretended not to understand, blinked inexplicably, and then showed a look of realization. Expression:
"I understand, are you worried about the signature of the paper? Just be careful about this, the signature promised to you will definitely not be missed.
This paper is still in the review stage and has not been officially submitted, so you don’t have to worry. Besides, even after it is officially submitted, as long as the paper is not published, the signature can be added!”
“ It’s not a matter of signature! We are also members of the project team, and we did all the experiments on the project. After you finish writing the paper, you have to show it to us, and we have to put forward some suggestions for revision, right? road.
"I understand, you want to help me revise my paper?" Zhang Wei showed a half-smiling expression.
“Everyone is involved in the entire project, so of course you have to brainstorm when writing the thesis! You can’t write the thesis alone!” Senior Brother Liu continued.
"I have always been writing papers by myself!" Zhang Wei pretended to be helpless and shook his head: "You want to help me revise the paper, right? No problem, I will print out the paper now. Feel free to modify it!"
Zhang Wei said and walked to the computer.
“You’ve already submitted your paper, what’s the use of revising it now!” Senior Brother Liu snorted coldly.
"At least you can evaluate how well I wrote this paper!" Zhang Wei opened the computer with a smile, and then printed seven copies of the paper.
While printing, Zhang Wei said: "Let me state in advance that what you see is the version I gave to Director Meng. Each person has one copy, read it slowly, and change it slowly!"
Senior Brother Liu took the first copy first and started reading.
“AProgrammableDual-RNA-GuidedDNAEndonucleaseinAdaptiveBacterialImmunity? The title is quite straightforward!”
Continuing to read the content, Senior Brother Liu’s expression gradually became less calm.
"This paper is very well written, with smooth logic, rigorous wording, and no grammatical problems. Zhang Wei is still a college student, right? His English level is pretty good, better than most graduate students!"< br>
Based on the level of domestic graduate students, even in C9-level prestigious schools, there are few who can get a perfect score on the TOEFL. It is no exaggeration to say that Zhang Wei’s English proficiency with a perfect TOEFL score can definitely beat 99% in China. graduate students.
Besides, other people also started to read the paper. Among them was a graduate student whose English proficiency was relatively average. He soon encountered a sentence that he couldn't understand. He couldn't help but walk to the desk and start looking through the dictionary.
The other three master's students also stared at the content of the paper and began to think hard about the meaning of each sentence. A paper of this level is still difficult for master's students, not only in terms of English proficiency, but also in terms of academic attainments.
In contrast, the reading of the three doctoral students was much smoother. Their academic level is higher and they have read more foreign literature. At least in terms of the content of the paper, it is not difficult for them.
After reading it for the first time, Senior Brother Liu took a deep breath and thought to himself: "Zhang Wei's English level is obviously higher than mine. In this case, I will definitely not be able to fault him in terms of words and sentences. It’s wrong and can only be revised at the academic level.”
Senior Brother Liu feels that he is a doctoral student who is about to graduate. Even if his brain is not as smart as Zhang Wei’s, his academic level will definitely not be as good as that of Zhang Wei. Zhang Wei is inferior, otherwise all these years of master's and doctorate degrees would have been in vain!
So he began to read the content of the paper carefully, intending to revise Zhang Wei's paper from an academic level.
Senior Brother Liu took out a pencil and began to read sentence by sentence. If he found a problem with a certain sentence, he would immediately mark it with the pencil in his hand.
Brother Liu will read every sentence carefully three or five times, hoping to find academic loopholes, such as unclear descriptions or ambiguous expressions that can easily lead to misunderstandings.
However, when he analyzed the entire paper sentence by sentence, he found that at an academic level, there was no fault at all.
Not only is the content of the paper rigorous, but the wording is also very concise. It uses almost the simplest sentences to clearly explain the content related to genetic scissors.
It can be said that there is almost no useless word in the whole paper. After reading it carefully, every word is useful.
“I can’t find any faults at all!”
There was a hint of horror in Senior Brother Liu's eyes. The quality of the paper in front of him made him unable to believe that it was written by a freshman.
“No, it must be because I have no intention! I am a Ph.D., even if it is my supervisor’s thesis, I can make some suggestions for revision. How could I not revise the thesis written by a freshman? !”
Senior Brother Liu took a deep breath, tried hard to calm down his emotions, and read the paper again, and this time, he not only analyzed many long sentences, he even started Think about each word carefully.
But the final result made him feel more and more frustrated.
You really can’t change a single word!
"How is this possible? Not to mention Zhang Wei is a Chinese, even a foreigner whose native language is English, a freshman cannot write a paper of this quality! How did Zhang Wei write it?"
At this time, Senior Brother Liu had realized that this was a paper of extremely high quality, better than what he had seen written by many top foreign scholars.
Senior Brother Liu's face was suddenly filled with greater embarrassment. He also said that he would help Zhang Wei revise the paper, but now it seems that with his level, he can't even revise a word!
What else is there about brainstorming? With such a high-quality paper, what qualifications do you have to brainstorm ideas with others!
As for my "brainstorming", speaking out is purely a hindrance and reduces the overall quality of the paper. It is absolutely harmful and does no good. There is no "good"!
"How could Zhang Wei write such a high-quality paper? I don't believe it! He must have asked top scholars to help him revise it, so the quality of the paper is so good!"
Thinking of this, Senior Brother Liu asked. Said: "Zhang Wei, has Director Meng revised this paper?"
"Wait a minute, I'll finish this game!" Zhang Wei stared at the screen seriously.
Senior Brother Liu then discovered that Zhang Wei had actually started playing stand-alone games next to the computer and was currently abusing the computer!
After waiting for a few minutes, Zhang Wei finished the battle.
"Sorry, I'm a little anxious waiting. Let's start a game." Zhang Wei put down the mouse, rubbed his joints, and then asked: "What did you ask me just now?"
"I mean, this "Have you asked Director Meng to revise this paper?" Senior Brother Liu repeated the question.
"Didn't I tell you when I printed the paper just now? This is the unmodified manuscript. It is shown to you just like it was shown to Director Meng!" Zhang Wei smiled slightly and then asked Said: "Have you finished revising? Come, let me see what valuable suggestions you have given me!"
Zhang Wei said, snatching the paper from Senior Brother Liu's hand, and then looked at it carefully. I found no trace of modification at all.
"Senior Brother Liu, I saw you were drawing with a pencil for a long time, but you didn't write anything!" Zhang Wei sighed deliberately, and then said: "I've even played this game. After playing several rounds, I thought you had to give a lot of revisions! I’m so happy!”
Being ridiculed by Zhang Wei, Senior Brother Liu's face turned livid instantly. He asked in a questioning tone: "The quality of this paper is so high, how could it not have been revised by Director Meng?"
Zhang Wei chuckled: "You must have read a lot of Director Meng's papers, right? Do you think Director Meng is capable of writing papers of this quality?"
"This... "Senior Brother Liu was suddenly speechless.
Meng Heming, as the director of the Department of Biology of Tsinghua University, has also published many papers, and his papers must have been read by graduate students in the Department of Biology of Tsinghua University.
Department Chair’s thesis, if you don’t study it seriously, won’t you want to be in the biology department?
Senior Brother Liu, who has both master's and Ph.D. degrees, studied in the Biology Department of Tsinghua University. He has read many of Meng Heming's papers and has some understanding of Meng Heming's writing skills.
Based on Senior Brother Liu’s understanding of Meng Heming, he really couldn’t write a paper of this quality.
Zhang Weize continued: "To tell you the truth, when I gave this paper to Director Meng, he didn't change a single word! Do you think he didn't want to change it, or he couldn't change it at all?"
Looking at Zhang Wei's arrogant expression, Senior Brother Liu felt even more shameless. He said forcefully: "Even if Director Meng didn't change it, maybe other professors helped you change it!"
"Other professors? Senior Brother Liu, you still don't understand me! You all have to sign a confidentiality agreement. Do you think I will show the paper to other professors?" Zhang Wei said cheerfully.
"It makes sense. Other professors probably don't know that my supervisor asked me about the progress of the project a few days ago!" Another doctor said.
Zhang Wei continued: "Besides, other professors must also have this level! Tell me, which professor in the Biology Department of Tsinghua University can write a paper of this quality?"
Everyone looked at me and I looked at you, but no one said a word.
The four master's students have not read that many papers, so it is difficult for them to comment.
But these three Ph.D.s all know something about the professors in the Biology Department of Tsinghua University, including their supervisors. They know what level of papers those professors can write. Frankly speaking, no professor in the Department of Biology at Tsinghua University can write a paper of this quality.
The two original authors of this paper were already well-known scholars when they wrote this paper. They had various titles on their heads, which were no less impressive than scholars of Shi Yigong's level.
After the papers they wrote were revised by academically powerful reviewers, the final work was not something that ordinary professors at Tsinghua University could achieve?
If you want to revise a paper, even if the level is not higher than that of the original author, at least it must be at the same level, right? If the level is lower than that of the original author, wouldn’t it mean that the more it is changed, the worse it gets!
Since no one in the entire Biology Department of Tsinghua University can write such a high-level paper, let alone anyone who can revise such a high-quality paper!
After agreeing on this, everyone fell into silence.
Although everyone does not want to believe it, the facts are before us. This high-quality paper was really written by Zhang Wei.
Zhang Wei continued to ask cheerfully: "Have you finished reading the paper? Come on, let me see what revision suggestions you have made and brainstorm ideas!
Huh? Brother Zhang ? You haven’t changed a word! Just like Senior Brother Liu, didn’t you agree with me in advance? You don’t need to save face, just change it if you think it’s inappropriate. Master!”
When Zhang Wei said this, Senior Brother Zhang immediately lowered his head in shame.
Brainstorming? If you can’t even change a single word, how can you brainstorm ideas?
Three people go together there must be my teacher? This kind of paper is completely a dimensionality reduction attack. Who dares to be your "teacher"? Isn’t that embarrassing enough?
At this time, everyone finally understood why Zhang Wei handed in the paper without showing it to them after he finished writing it!
Because there is absolutely no need for that.
Even if you let them read the paper, they can't make any suggestions for revision, not even a single word!
This is not to disrespect them, nor to look down on them, but their abilities are not worthy of this respect!
I remembered that not long ago, everyone was still clamoring to read the paper and provide revision comments.
Now that I think about it, how ridiculous I was at that time! If I can't write such a high-quality paper in my lifetime, how can I have the confidence to provide revision suggestions?
No wonder Zhang Wei had a weird expression when he said, "You want to help me revise my paper."
Everyone didn’t understand it at the time, but now they finally understand that Zhang Wei was watching the clown!
People who are capable need to be respected!
But finding someone who respects you also earns you points.
If you were Lord Guan, no one would dare to disrespect you throughout the Three Kingdoms.
But if you, Lingling General Xing Daorong, come to Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun to show respect, that would be ridiculous!
(End of this chapter)