Example from Reviewers' Comments

"This manuscript was densly written and too difficult to read.  The authors use terminology, for example axial coding, that I and other readers may be unfamililar with."

"In the methods section, several terms are too jargony.  Readers may be unfamiliar with them.  One example is the use of the terms "immersion/crystallization" to describe what was done analytically.  Although the authors provide a citation for this, the reader might not know what this means or what this kind of analysis this entails.  Even more troubling, is that these terms stand as a gloss for what was actually done.  In other words, the author use this term in lieu of providing a sufficiently detailed description of how they conducted their analysis."

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