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Book Review: Writing Science: How to Write Papers That Get Cited and Proposals That Get Funded

This is the premise which the author, an environmental scientist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, carries throughout the book. It is an alarming notion for some, acceptable to others, but nonetheless fresh and thought provoking to most. As scientists, we often delegate the actual writing process to a secondary role in the process of scientific investigation and reporting. But as ...

Effective medical writing: The write way to get published.

Effective Medical Writing is a handy, easy-to-understand guide for entry-level academics and young biomedical scientists who are new to scientific writing and clueless about the whole process. It is a comprehensive tool, updated from the authors’ practical monthly series Effective Medical Writing: Pointers to Getting Your Article Published in the Singapore Medical Journal, covering the basics o...

Writing Together to Get AHEAD: an interprofessional boot camp to support scholarly writing in the health professions

BACKGROUND Writing for publication is an integral skill for both sharing research findings and career advancement, yet many faculty lack expertise, support, and time to author scholarly publications. Health professions educators identified writing as an area in which a new educators' academy could offer support. CASE PRESENTATION To address this need, a writing task force was formed consistin...

"GET IT! WRITE" - Developing an Online Resource to Aid Student Academic Writing: A Journey of Discovery

The central focus of this paper is the authors’ experiences developing an online program to assist students improve their academic writing and referencing skills in response to increasingly poor levels of student expression and quality of submitted work. The ten modules provide students with access to theory on the process and skills required in preparing tertiary level assignments and then the...

Effective writing and publishing scientific papers--part I: how to get started.