PROBLEM Most midwives and nurses do not write for publication. Previous authors on this topic have focussed on the processes of writing and getting published. Although definitive English usage style guides exist, they are infrequently consulted by new midwifery authors. PURPOSE To enable new writers to confidently apply the basic skills of scientific writing when preparing a paper for publica...

In this paper, a hypothesis of shared responsibility for a clear and accessibly written scientific paper published in a scientific journal is put forward and discussed. Among the parties sharing the responsibility, i.e. the author, the peer reviewer, the editor-in-chief together with the editorial board, and the language editor, the author has the greatest responsibility. Producing a clear and ...

Language, science and politics go together and learning these genres is to learn a language created for codifying, extending and transmitting scientific and political knowledge. Grammatical metaphor is divided into two broad areas: ideational and interpersonal.This paper focuses on the first type i.e. Ideational Grammatical Metaphor (IGM), which includes process types and nominalization.  The m...