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In scientific communication we often use words and drawings. The most serious wish of the researcher may be that his or her article will communicate. Non-native authors can make errors in using English. With drawings he or she can better succeed in transferring his/her main ideas, because graphs and pictures can comprise a common language.
Although this graphical language seemed to be promising, we found some problems in using it. The problems we found concerned such relationships as partitioning a whole into components, real or imagined correlation between activities, ranking or nesting particular activities in a priority order, and implicitly assumed top-down flow. We picked up some real cases from highly ranked journals and other sources to demonstrate smaller or larger deficiencies in the drawings and how those faults can be fixed. Finally we collect our results as a set of lessons learned.
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Järvinen, P. (2001). Improving the Quality of Drawings. In: Rasmussen, L.B., Beardon, C., Munari, S. (eds) Computers and Networks in the Age of Globalization. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 57. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35400-2_18
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