Avoiding Common Pitfalls in Medical Writing: An Editor’s Advice

Author(s): Deanna Erin Conners

Publication Date: October 31, 2024

ISBN: 978-1956862089

About the book

Avoiding Common Pitfalls in Medical Writing is a useful companion text to comprehensive style guides for the biomedical sciences. This book walks authors through best practices for writing scientific papers and grant proposals in a concise and accessible format. Authors and teachers worldwide will benefit from these shared insights of an experienced scientific editor.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Writing and Style Basics
  • 1 | Three Types of Editing: Proofreading, Copy Editing, and Content Editing
  • 2 | When to Use the Past and Present Tense of Verbs
  • 3 | Break up Looooong Sentences
  • 4 | Unusual Places Where You Need to Use a Comma
  • 5 | How to Avoid Comma Splices
  • 6 | How to Stop Dangling Your Participles
• Specialized Style Concerns
  • 7 | How to Use and Format Acronyms
  • 8 | How to Express Numbers in Scientific Documents
  • 9 | How to Properly Abbreviate a Journal Name
• Optimization for Publication and Funding
  • 10 | Dos and Don’ts When Writing a Title
  • 11 | Use a Formal Tone in Scientific Writing
  • 12 | Helpful Tools to Improve the Flow of Logic in Scientific Papers and Proposals
  • 13 | Ways to Minimize Jargon
  • 14 | Don’t Bury the Lede of a Grant Proposal
  • 15 | Four Search Engine Optimization Tools to Boost a Paper’s Citation Rate
• The Publication Process
  • 16 | Journal Selection Simplified
  • 17 | Don’t Fall Prey to Predatory Journals
  • 18 | Beware of Zombie Papers
  • 19 | How to Respond to Reviewers’ Comments
  • 20 | How to Give Good Feedback on Colleagues’ Drafts
• Live Audiences
  • 21 | Tips for Delivering Effective Presentations
• Recommended Further Readings and Resources
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author

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