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• For the author: it saves you work!
• For the editor: better understand scope, key take-home messages,
niche that the paper will fill
• It starts a collaborative process between the author and editor
• Get to know your writing style (if I can’t understand your proposal,
the paper probably won’t be suitable for a general audience either)
• Why you shouldn’t send a 6000+ word paper unsolicited:
– Maybe it’s impossible to revise to fit journal style
– Maybe we don’t have room for it
– Maybe it’s not a good fit
– No opportunity for collaboration
– “Cuts in line” ahead of other proposals
…and why do editors ask for them?