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ArticlePublication 2018Corruption of Medical Language
This opinion piece, published in BMC Opinion, presents a former medical journal editor’s view on …
This opinion piece, published in BMC Opinion, presents a former medical journal editor’s view on the importance of clear writing in academia. The author describes a common style of writing in medical journals: “decorated municipal gothic”, which he deems “long, tortuous, opaque, uninteresting”. He suggests that this unreadable style stems from academic writers who are not concerned with readability. Rather, they are focused on extending their list of publications and conforming to established norms of…
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ArticlePublication 1999Preparing Manuscripts for Submission to Medical Journals: The Paper Trail
This article, published in Effective Clinical Practice, provides a framework for writing academic manuscripts. Themes …
This article, published in Effective Clinical Practice, provides a framework for writing academic manuscripts. Themes from the framework include: 1) start writing before your project is completed; 2) focus your attention on what readers are most likely to look at: the title, abstract, tables, and figures; 3) develop a systematic approach to the introduction, methods, results, and discussion sections; and 4) improve the paper by learning how to get and incorporate useful feedback.
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