Plain English For Doctors And Other Medical Scientists

Author : Oscar Linares
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190654856
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plain English for Doctors and Other Medical Scientists written by Oscar Linares and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-15 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plain English for Doctors shows how to write about medical science in a clear and vivid way. It can help a medical writer at any level, from beginner to veteran, since it gives specific, practical advice. Writing in plain English can help your writing reach a wider audience, including people in other specialties, levels of training, other fields, and other countries around the world. What makes medical writing hard to read? Is it complex science or complex grammar? This book shows how to keep good science but avoid complex grammar. It describes the symptoms of medicus incomprehensibilis, those over-used writing habits that tend to make medical writing hard to read. It shows how to treat each symptom using a proven plain English writing tip. Each tip is easy to apply and comes with exercises. The exercises are based on excerpts from articles published in leading medical journals. Model revisions vastly improve reading ease and grade level. The book looks at medical writing from three angles. Concept 1, Take charge of your reading ease score, shows how to manage reading ease. Concept 2, Write vividly, shows how to write more vividly by focusing on real world objects and actions. Concept 3, Present logical reasoning clearly, gives tips on how to choose a clear narrative pathway and forge a strong chain of logical reasoning. This book is a must for anyone who writes about medical science. The ability to express complex ideas in simple language is not a remedial skill. Rather, it can only be seen as a sign of mastery.

Author : Oscar Linares
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190654864
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plain English for Doctors and Other Medical Scientists written by Oscar Linares and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-15 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plain English for Doctors shows how to write about medical science in a clear and vivid way. It can help a medical writer at any level, from beginner to veteran, since it gives specific, practical advice. Writing in plain English can help your writing reach a wider audience, including people in other specialties, levels of training, other fields, and other countries around the world. What makes medical writing hard to read? Is it complex science or complex grammar? This book shows how to keep good science but avoid complex grammar. It describes the symptoms of medicus incomprehensibilis, those over-used writing habits that tend to make medical writing hard to read. It shows how to treat each symptom using a proven plain English writing tip. Each tip is easy to apply and comes with exercises. The exercises are based on excerpts from articles published in leading medical journals. Model revisions vastly improve reading ease and grade level. The book looks at medical writing from three angles. Concept 1, Take charge of your reading ease score, shows how to manage reading ease. Concept 2, Write vividly, shows how to write more vividly by focusing on real world objects and actions. Concept 3, Present logical reasoning clearly, gives tips on how to choose a clear narrative pathway and forge a strong chain of logical reasoning. This book is a must for anyone who writes about medical science. The ability to express complex ideas in simple language is not a remedial skill. Rather, it can only be seen as a sign of mastery.

Author : Oscar Linares
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190868708
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diagnosing and Treating Medicus Incomprehensibilis written by Oscar Linares and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-12 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diagnosing and Treating Medicus Incomphensibilis is a book of case studies on revising medical writing into plain English. It is a companion to Plain English for Doctors and Other Medical Scientists (Oxford University Press, 2017). It gives more practice to help the reader master skills in plain English medical writing. The 12 case studies are based on excerpts from articles published in leading medical journals. The excerpts cover a wide range of medical topics. Each case study looks at one excerpt, between 56 and 308 words long, that shows many classic symptoms of medicus incomprehensibilis - those overused writing habits that make medical writing hard to read. The case study asks questions, and gives short exercises, to guide the reader through the process of diagnosing the symptoms of medicus incomprehensibilis. The reader writes their prescription and revises to treat the symptoms. After each case study, the authors give their answers, prescription and revision. This book is intended for doctors and other medical scientists who write for medical journals, and anyone who aspires to do so. It is intended for writers at all levels, from veteran authors to students. It includes writers in related fields such as public health, pharmacology, nursing and life sciences. It is designed for self-study, seminar or classroom use.

Author : Anne E. Greene
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022602640X
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing Science in Plain English written by Anne E. Greene and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-05-24 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scientific writing is often dry, wordy, and difficult to understand. But, as Anne E. Greene shows in Writing Science in Plain English,writers from all scientific disciplines can learn to produce clear, concise prose by mastering just a few simple principles. This short, focused guide presents a dozen such principles based on what readers need in order to understand complex information, including concrete subjects, strong verbs, consistent terms, and organized paragraphs. The author, a biologist and an experienced teacher of scientific writing, illustrates each principle with real-life examples of both good and bad writing and shows how to revise bad writing to make it clearer and more concise. She ends each chapter with practice exercises so that readers can come away with new writing skills after just one sitting. Writing Science in Plain English can help writers at all levels of their academic and professional careers—undergraduate students working on research reports, established scientists writing articles and grant proposals, or agency employees working to follow the Plain Writing Act. This essential resource is the perfect companion for all who seek to write science effectively.

Author : Silvia M. Rogers
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642394469
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mastering Scientific and Medical Writing written by Silvia M. Rogers and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2014-01-04 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This self-help guide is intended for scientists and medical professionals and students who wish to improve their scientific writing skills. Exercises invite the reader to practice the most important aspects of scientific writing. Although the book addresses certain issues more troublesome to scientific communicators of a non-English language origin, the guide will be of equal benefit to those whose first language is English. If you want not only to write but to write well, this book is for you. This second edition takes into account new developments in the area of scientific communication. In particular, the importance of authenticity is addressed, drawing attention to the sensitive issue of plagiarism in scientific texts.

Author : Irma Taavitsainen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139493833
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medical Writing in Early Modern English written by Irma Taavitsainen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-03 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medical writing tells us a great deal about how the language of science has developed in constructing and communicating knowledge in English. This volume provides a new perspective on the evolution of the special language of medicine, based on the electronic corpus of Early Modern English Medical Texts, containing over two million words of medical writing from 1500 to 1700. The book presents results from large-scale empirical research on the new materials and provides a more detailed and diversified picture of domain-specific developments than any previous book. Three introductory chapters provide the sociohistorical, disciplinary and textual frame for nine empirical studies, which address a range of key issues in a wide variety of medical genres from fresh angles. The book is useful for researchers and students within several fields, including the development of special languages, genre and register analysis, (historical) corpus linguistics, historical pragmatics, and medical and cultural history.

Author : Ray Vaughn Pierce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1030 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English written by Ray Vaughn Pierce and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 1030 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ray Vaughn Pierce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1028 pages
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Download or read book The People's common sense medical adviser in plain English, or, Medicine simplified written by Ray Vaughn Pierce and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 1028 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ray Vaughn Pierce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1024 pages
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Download or read book The People's Common Sense Medical Advisor in Plain English Or, Medicine Simplified written by Ray Vaughn Pierce and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 1024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ray Vaughn Pierce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1030 pages
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Download or read book The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English, Or, a Medicine Simplified written by Ray Vaughn Pierce and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 1030 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: