In 2019, I submitted a paper that was rejected with review scores 2.5, 3, 3. One week later, I resubmitted it with minor changes, and it was accepted with scores 4, 4.5, 4.5.01 For context, that’s an almost unspeakably dramatic jump in scores, from “middling reject” to “strong accept.” This post shows exactly those changes. We’ll frame them in two parts: Polish page 1 for acceptance Use the remaining pages to avoid rejection Page 1 has four parts: title, abstract, Figure 1, and introduction. We’...