Figuring out the Figures: What’s the Best Way to Present Your Research?

I. 英文原版

Professor Paul S. Weiss, UC Presidential Chair, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and of Materials Science and Engineering and Editor-in-Chief of ACS Nano, says he prepares a figure set before the data is even available. Doing this can help chemists map out what’s missing from your research. It also lays the work out into a sort of storyboard.

Professor Phil S Baran, Darlene Shiley Chair in Chemistry at The Scripps Research Institute and Associate Editor of Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS) equates writing a paper to writing a children’s novel. “It starts with the illustrations,” Baran says, “it’s what we do. We work on the pictures first.” Baran goes on to explain that most people don’t have time to go through an entire research paper, so the figures should be able to tell much of the story.

Another approach is to storyboard all of your data. Professor Peter License, of University of Nottingham and Associate Editor of ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, says once you have all the figures in front of you, you can see if they prove that the research answered the initial question.

II. 中文版

加州大学校长主席，化学和生物化学以及材料科学与工程杰出教授，ACS Nano主编Paul S. Weiss教授说，他在数据可用之前就准备了一个数字集。这样做可以帮助化学家找出您的研究中缺少的内容。它还将工作布置成一种故事板。

斯克里普斯研究所Darlene Shiley化学主席兼《美国化学学会杂志》（JACS）副主编Phil S Baran教授将撰写论文等同于撰写儿童小说。“它从插图开始，”巴兰说，“这就是我们所做的。我们先处理图片。巴兰继续解释说，大多数人没有时间浏览整篇研究论文，所以这些数字应该能够讲述大部分故事。

另一种方法是对所有数据进行情节提要。诺丁汉大学（University of Nottingham）教授、ACS可持续化学与工程（ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering）副主编彼得·拉克（Peter License）说，一旦你把所有的数字都摆在你面前，你就可以看看它们是否证明了这项研究回答了最初的问题。