You will be using the data in a different way, depending on the audience and therefore it is ethical and permissible. Check the guidelines of the journal to which you are submitting your manuscript. Consider the words of colleagues, but do not let criticism that directly contradicts your intent keep you from submitting your manuscript. Eventually you will have to just do it and put the manuscript in the mail. Remember that you have not liked everything you ve read over the years, but that doesn t mean that the writing shouldn t be submitted.
Hand copy the first two paragraphs of the article.
Then, with a different color pen make at least two corrections to improve a sentence or make an idea more interesting and concrete. You can see that not only can you write the sort of thing that gets printed, but you can even improve it.