Bottom line: Writing is important. Our major contribution is to communicate ideas, not

only to create them.It is NOT superficial for a committee to reject an article based on

writing alone. Even if ideas are great, when nobody can understand them, they are useless

Getting accepted is one thing, having impact is another one. I can cite a number of great

contributions that did not have as much impact as they should have because no one

(except maybe the reviewers) was able to understand the paper. And I can cite you a

number of my papers that are confusing and resulted in misunderstanding. My 2002 tone

mapping paper is a good example. Lots of people have found it hard to implement my

method although it s really really simple. But it s not well explained in the paper. And a

negative outcome is that some of the comparisons out there with my technique are not

fair because people did not implement it well.