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19.11 How should I write the Acknowledgements?
The Acknowledgements generally include one or more of the following.
1. Sources of funds.
2. People who gave significant technical help (e.g. in the design of your experi-
ment, in providing materials).
3. People who gave ideas, suggestions, interpretations etc.
4. The anonymous reviewers
It is a good idea to let the people that you wish to acknowledge see the exact word-
ing of how you want to acknowledge them – they might think it is too effusive (or
occasionally, insuffi cient).
The style of giving acknowledgements may be quite different from the style of the
rest of the paper. For example, you can use the first person ( I, we ).
Keep your acknowledgements as short as possible, they are generally of little inter-
est to anyone apart from those mentioned.
