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Medical Writing
A Prescription for Clarity

4th Edition

Authors:
Neville W. Goodman, Southmead Hospital, Bristol
Martin B. Edwards
Editor: Elise Langdon-Neuner

Tim Albert

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Date Published: August 2014
availability: Available
format: Paperback
isbn: 9781107628151

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Effective communication is the ultimate, but often daunting, purpose of any medical research or review. This book provides the practical information necessary to turn first drafts into concise, unambiguous text, without loss of individuality. Written by a consultant anaesthetist and an experienced medical editor, and also illustrated by an accomplished medical editor, all of whom are sympathetic to the problems and needs of medical writers, this book deals with the basic craft of writing, from choosing the best word or phrase to essential grammar. This expanded fourth edition includes many more words better replaced, and deals explicitly with the problems of writers whose first language is not English. Whether you are writing a simple clinical report or a thesis, supervising others, running a course on medical or scientific writing, or just want to develop your skills in written communication, this book is the ideal guide and reference. Clear, simple and precise, and illustrated with apt cartoons, this is an invaluable handbook.
- Significantly expanded to include additional chapters on the difficulties of English as an additional language, technology and changing language, circumlocution, and clichés and article titles
- Comprehensive lists of words and phrases that can be found and replaced enable a quick-start to improving medical English
- Over 40 new exercises, with explanations, allow readers to test whether they have grasped the principles outlined in the text
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Review of previous edition: 'Read this book, and make sure your students do …' British Journal of Psychiatry
Review of previous edition: 'Anyone who aspires to medical or scientific authorship should read this book.' Journal of the Institution of Health Education
Review of previous edition: '… whether you are an amateur or a well-published author this book will be useful. After reading it, I immediately wanted to redraft work I had written previously. But it is too late!' British Journal of Anaesthesia
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Product details
- Edition: 4th Edition
- Date Published: August 2014
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107628151
- length: 382 pages
- dimensions: 233 x 156 x 16 mm
- weight: 0.64kg
- contains: 24 b/w illus. 4 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Foreword Tim Albert
Preface
Part I. Problem: The Illness:
1. Introduction
2. The malaise of medical manuscripts
3. The difficulties of English as an additional language (EAL)
Part II. Solution: Symptomatic Relief:
4. Technology, changing language, and authority
5. Guidelines to clearer writing
6. Spelling
7. Is there a better word?
8. Superfluous words
9. Imprecise words
10. Superfluous phrases
11. Trouble with short words
12. Use of the passive voice
13. Consistency: number and tenses
14. Word order
15. Punctuation
16. Circumlocution
17. Words and parts of speech for EAL writers
18. Clichés and article titles
19. Constructing sentences
20. Further help with sentences for EAL writers
21. Drawing clear graphs
22. It can be done
Part III. Practice: Recuperation:
23. Exercises
Appendix: British-American English
References and further reading
Index.
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Authors
Neville W. Goodman, Southmead Hospital, Bristol
Dr Neville W. Goodman is a retired consultant anaesthetist who formerly worked at Southmead Hospital, Bristol.
Martin B. Edwards
The late Dr Martin B. Edwards was formerly Senior Research Fellow at the Royal College of Surgeons and a freelance medical editor.
Editor
Elise Langdon-Neuner
Elise Langdon-Neuner is a freelance medical editor and editor emeritus of Medical Writing.
Illustrated by
Andy Black, University of Bristol
Dr Andy Black is a retired Senior Lecturer in Anaesthesia who formerly worked at the University of Bristol.
Contributors
Tim Albert