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Talk:MRD:OHC15

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This is excellent, well done! I'm afraid I don't have many suggestions for improvement, but I will highlight the things I particularly liked so you can carry on!

  • Experimental data & methods: You showed all your data and methods, allowing me to clearly follow your reasoning. I particularly liked that you reasoned in your discussions drawing from evidence of your experimental work. In the case of Polanyi's rules it is important to show a range of results, which you did. Numbering of figures is also good practice so you can refer to them in your main text.
  • Vibrational energy release: Could you draw a diagram of the IR transition that would be observable? Which approximations do you have to invoke and which ones can't be used here?
  • Introduction: It is more important what the calculation is that you performed compared to how you did it. So instead of talking about "a MATLAB program", mention "molecular reaction dynamics simulation". The exact execution of the simulation (things like MATLAB code, calculation details, parallelism) can be mentioned in the methods section of a paper or even in the supporting information.
  • English: Your English is on point, but there are three small flaws I found: Pay attention to singular/plural nouns, don't use definite articles in front of names and use semi-colons when splitting sentences. E.g. "This can be confirmed using the surface plot; the black dot representing our system is situated at the maximum point of the lowest energy trajectory.". In this sentence you switch subject between "This" and "the black dot". You can't separate the halves by a comma; you can only do that when the subject stays the same or when you are entering a subordinate clause. Use a semi-colon instead (this is a very minor point).

Great report! --Bg1512 (talk) 19:03, 22 May 2017 (BST)