Resource Pack: Academic Writing
2023
This resource pack provides guidance for writing in an academic setting. Much academic writing is opaque, with complex sentences and highly specialized vocabulary. Clarity, structure, and accessible language can improve a writer’s ability to communicate scholarly concepts to other academics as well as general audiences.
The resources contained in this pack explain the utility of clear writing and provide guidance to achieve it. They address a variety of formats for translating research findings – in medical journals, in other scientific forums, in media including blogs and newspaper op-eds – and they explain the manuscript preparation process. The pack includes eight articles, an infographic, and a curated list of apps that can be used to analyze writing.
Resources include:
- The Corruption of Medical Language
- The Needless Complexity of Academic Writing
- Preparing Manuscripts for Submission to Medical Journals: The Paper Trail
- On Whimsy, Jokes, and Beauty: Can Scientific Writing Be Enjoyed?
- A Letter from the Frustrated Author of a Journal Paper
- How to Write a Blogpost from Your Journal Article in 11 Easy Steps
- Tips for Aspiring Op-Ed Writers
- Why Storytelling Matters in Healthcare
- Apps and Online Tools for Writing: Hemingway, Readable, Slick Write, Microsoft Word
An annotated bibliography with hyperlinks to the repository and original source for each resource, and documentation of open versus closed access status, is available to download at the bottom of this page.
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Source:
Resource Pack: Academic Writing. Center for Health and Decision Science, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health 2023. http://repository.chds.hsph.harvard.edu/repository/collection/resource-pack-academic-writing