the az of medical writing

... message from the conference, then go through the usual stages (see process of writing) ... As a general rule, the greater the number of coauthors, the greater the problems The manuscript ... co-authors before 7 – THE A Z OF MEDICAL WRITING the. .. of the mundane At the same time try to make sense of it all What’s new? What’s interesting? What would the readers like ... A Z OF MEDICAL WRITING format? Is there an example of the kind of conference report they like (and perhaps one they don’t)? • At the conference, just soak up the information Don’t

Ngày tải lên: 10/07/2015, 16:27

... widely used in many parts of the world. In the tendency of integration of the global economy, English is one of the effective communicative tools for everybody. The role of English is considered ... one. The questions are of the three – kinds: close – ended questions, open – ended questions and scaling 2. Other sources of data come from writing tasks from the textbooks. The analysis of the ... were designed with the aim to find out the attitude of the teachers toward teaching pre – writing activities in a writing lesson, the difficulties they often meet while conducting these activities

Ngày tải lên: 07/09/2013, 13:58

... paintbrush. Yes, but the next morning you do the whole job in three hours, and there’s no need to razor the windows or scrub paint off the floor. And it’s the same way with writing. Think about the readers, ... people write the body of the text first and save the opener to write last, to benefit from all the clarity that the writing brought. If that works for you, great. Others find (and I am one of them) that ... spend more time writing the opener, less time writing the body of the piece, and less time overall. Writing and Structure 77 It will help you to have the closer in mind as you write the opener, for

Ngày tải lên: 26/01/2014, 08:20

... magnifi- cent island.” Then I considered the essay’s title: ? ?The Island at the End of the Earth.” Hmm. In many seagoing cultures, the islands at the end of the world are where the dead and dying ... albatross ap- pears out of the east, where high dark coasts open on the ocean horizon and the last sun ray glints on the windy seas of the Drake Passage. The group reaches the island. The author tells ... is the symmetry so clear at opening and close. The reader enters and leaves this universe of words at the same place, pulled through the duration of the trip by a well-crafted spiral. The other

Ngày tải lên: 26/01/2014, 08:20

... another there, a third and a fourth some other place; they grow, they become rivers, and they converge! The piece ends with something new and big, a veritable Mississippi. At the other end of the ... pointed into the worst of it and hope he doesn’t get blindsided by a freak wave. And that was the start of the storm. In the same matter -of- fact tone, Junger spends the last nine pages of chapter ... smaller Ideas into Words 90 waves, the events of the last three chapters? ?the struggle for life on other boats caught out, as well as the heroic deeds (including a death) of the Coast Guard rescue teams. The book ends with

Ngày tải lên: 26/01/2014, 08:20

... knowledge that could have confused the picture: the other causes of high blood pressure, for example; the other part of the kidney problem; the names of the various parts of the kidney’s cir- culatory ... Chameleons can hurl their tongues even farther than salamanders, shooting them twice the length of their bodies in less than a second [by means of a ring of muscle] Rings of muscle aren’t mandatory ... but they aren’t as effective in the kidneys. Part of the problem lies in the kidneys’ unusual design. Blood enters the organs via arteries and then fans out into microscopic capillaries. There,

Ngày tải lên: 26/01/2014, 08:20

... problem to the forefront. Noting positive reactions is a must, and not only to pre- serve morale. Most of us tend to think of editing as “fix- ing” what is off.We forget the other half of the job, ... substance without which the reader cannot go on? Does it grab? Go on to the next paragraph, asking the same questions, and the next, and the next. All too often, you can drop the first few paragraphs ... Yes, the scene in the computer lab! It’s the essence of what the story is about.With just a little tweaking, it will be perfect. Often both pace and tone change at this turning point, as the writer

Ngày tải lên: 26/01/2014, 08:20

... de-emphasize should go in the middle of the sentence (and paragraph). The middle of the sen- tence is the place for necessary nothings such as these: however (a slalom flag to mark the unexpected) Dr. ... by the NIH The middle of the paragraph is the place for their equivalent in full sentences. The middle also makes a good home for items that only a few readers will need, for whatever reason? ?the ... exploration of the moon during the Apollo 11 mission when Neil Armstrong reported back to earth, “Houston, the Eagle has landed.” The problem of drug abuse is a topic often reported by the media

Ngày tải lên: 26/01/2014, 08:20

... you tell. In professional writing, you show. In a term paper, the reader is the teacher, who by definition knows all and must read the paper any- way. In professional writing, the reader knows ... yet, start to work with them on the day of the talk, while you’re still excited. Otherwise the new ideas will evanesce, cast off as wrong or irrelevant by your older mindset, the one that had you ... Readers lose confidence if they feel that the writer is either ridiculing or flattering the subject. If you fear you may be tipping in either direction, remind yourself of professional norms. Call

Ngày tải lên: 26/01/2014, 08:20

... Business, as a service to the community of professional legal writers The Journal of the Association of Legal Writing Directors is a publication of the Association of Legal Writing Directors Its ... LEARNING/THINKING /WRITING Vol Painting with print: Incorporating concepts of typographic and layout design into the text of legal writing documents Ruth Anne Robbins The Journal of the Association of Legal Writing ... typography as paint on the canvas of the page In reality, the first thing the reader sees is the overall pattern of light and dark on the page The careful and considered use of textual effects can

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 05:20

... stages of the development of this report as members of the Task Force The Deans of Medicine and their decanal teams have been central to this work They reacted to several iterations of the draft ... Project Manager The Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada (AFMC) Claire de Lucovich Project Assistant The Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada (AFMC) 39 The Future of Medical Education ... Undergraduate Medical Education Faculty of Medicine University of Manitoba Catherine Moffatt Project Manager The Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada (AFMC) Alan Neville Dean Undergraduate Medical

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 20:20

... score of kindred sciences as its subject, the body of man, the visible lord of the creation, is superior to the subject of all other physical sciences, which do so much honor to the power of the ... veneration than the members of almost any other profession; even in the sacred oracles of Revelation his office is spoken of with the highest commendation: “Honor the physician,” writes the inspired ... course of lectures? ?the science of MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE. It is the characteristic of science to trace results to their causes. The science of Jurisprudence investigates the causes or principles of

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 13:20

... of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, the Surgeon General of the U.S. Navy, the Surgeon General of the U.S. Army (only in some years), and the president of the Medical Society of the ... Section of Materia Medica to the time of the writing of this paper. While the medical collection remained in the Department of Arts and Industries, by the end of June 1912 practically all other ... indicative of the degree of their cultural development and standard of living as is the nature of their food, the character of their dwellings, and their social and religious traditions. Therefore,

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 20:20

... directly influence the efficacy of the production of child health inasmuch as their practices have an empirical basis The major assumption, therefore, is that the pathways of influence have a ... constraints The reduced-form is obtained by substituting the determinants of the chosen health behaviors into equation (1) for the xht To derive the determinants of the xht, we make the standard ... design of the program itself might have been flawed because the primary cause of malnutrition was recurrent infection rather than inadequate diet issue for our analysis is that the quality of medical

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 06:20

... underpin effective academic writing. The importance of the iterative nature of writing The idea of writing being driven by an iterative dynamic is central to all of the themes that we explore in ... reframe the nature of academic writing. For many, academic writing has become a thorn in the side of the academy, instead of the glue that holds everyone together. It can be argued that the emergence ... • www.hybertdesign.com The Handbook of Academic Writing Rowena Murray and Sarah Moore Murray and Moore A Fresh Approach A Fresh Approach The Handbook of Academic Writing The Handbook of Academic Writing The Handbook

Ngày tải lên: 25/03/2014, 10:21

... off your monitor (see free writing) . THE A – Z OF MEDICAL WRITING 26 AtoZtext.qxd 22/02/00 13:51 Page 26 writing, see these details before you start. Don’t wait for the finished piece; show them ... them. THE A – Z OF MEDICAL WRITING 34 AtoZtext.qxd 22/02/00 13:52 Page 34 format? Is there an example of the kind of conference report they like (and perhaps one they don’t)? • At the conference, ... copy of our paper which proves for the first time that writing covering letters of more than 200 words increases dramat- ically the chance of being published.’ Putting the title at the top of the...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 15:59

... calculated all kinds of things with this theory. The first thing I calculated was the rate of disintegration of the muon and the neutron. They should be connected to- gether, if this theory was right, ... you at the bar?” Ten minutes later, while the grousers were presumably at the bar, I walked by the room of exchange copies—and there was John Bethell, combing through other people’s magazines ... going to be all of them, or al- most all. This is going to be awful!—an old-fashioned epi- demic like none of us has ever seen!” The better the scien- tist, the larger the scruple and the more he...

Ngày tải lên: 05/10/2012, 09:47

... Publications 31 FUNbook of C REATIVE W RITING A BOUT THE B OOK Below are suggestions for expanded use of the FUNbook ofFUNbook of FUNbook ofFUNbook of FUNbook of Creative WritingCreative Writing Creative WritingCreative ... students love to read them aloud and even come up with their own ideas. The FUNbook of Creative Writing can be used with large or small groups. Write one of the story starters on the board before ... Fun Folder of Creative Writing. S UGGESTIONS The attention-getting, humorous story starters in this book will surely spark the imagination of the most reluctant story writer. The antics of characters...

Ngày tải lên: 08/11/2012, 10:46

... fer- tilize and weed. There is work to be done. But the work pays off biggest when the plants are right for the soil and micro- climate of the particular garden. Is there some subject or writing style ... trigger their adrenaline. So they often thrive as staff, goaded on by the rest of the group (not to mention the boss). Gregarious types may not need goad- ing but wilt in a life that leaves them ... splitting. i. Writing was not for enjoying. After schooling like that, it’s no wonder that many of us tense up when we sit down to write. But fortunately, the How of writing is not the heart of the matter,...

Ngày tải lên: 17/10/2013, 19:15

... off by 7 percent.” Then I remember the 9 percent. It was like a prediction for me: I went home and got this theory that says the neu- tron decay should be off by 9 percent, and they tell me the next ... “un- sure,” even when they are sure (in the ordinary sense), because their idea of truth is so lofty. Also, they feel responsible not to scare the public. I well remember from the early 1980s not ... part, the best scientists agree on the current best theory, which they recognize because, well, it fits. It an- swers the most questions with the greatest precision and the fewest loose ends. There’s...

Ngày tải lên: 20/10/2013, 10:15