Download Plain English for doctors and other medical scientists by Daly, David; Daly, Gertrude; Linares, Oscar PDF

By Daly, David; Daly, Gertrude; Linares, Oscar

Plain English for Doctors indicates find out how to write approximately clinical technology in a transparent and shiny method. it might support a clinical author at any point, from newbie to veteran, because it offers particular, useful recommendation. Writing in undeniable English might help your writing achieve a much wider viewers, together with humans in different specialties, degrees of teaching, different fields, and different international locations worldwide.

What makes clinical writing demanding to learn? Is it complicated technology or complicated grammar? This ebook exhibits how you can continue stable technology yet steer clear of complicated grammar. It describes the indications of medicus incomprehensibilis, these over-used writing conduct that have a tendency to make clinical writing challenging to learn. It indicates tips to deal with each one symptom utilizing a confirmed undeniable English writing tip. every one tip is simple to use and is derived with routines. The workouts are according to excerpts from articles released in top scientific journals. version revisions tremendously increase interpreting ease and grade level.

The e-book appears to be like at scientific writing from 3 angles. suggestion 1, Take cost of your interpreting ease ranking, exhibits tips to deal with analyzing ease. idea 2, Write vividly, indicates the best way to write extra vividly by means of targeting actual global gadgets and activities. idea three, current logical reasoning in actual fact, supplies the best way to select a transparent narrative pathway and forge a powerful chain of logical reasoning.

This e-book is a needs to for someone who writes approximately clinical technological know-how. the power to specific complicated rules in uncomplicated language isn't really a remedial ability. fairly, it may possibly in simple terms be obvious as an indication of mastery.

Show description

Read Online or Download Plain English for doctors and other medical scientists PDF

Best technical books

Integrierte Produkt- und Prozessgestaltung

In dem Buch werden aktuelle Modelle und Methoden im Bereich ''Integrierte Produkt- und Prozessgestaltung'' dargestellt. Die ''Integrierte Produkt- und Prozessentwicklung'' ist eine interdisziplinäre Aufgabe verschiedener Disziplinen, wie advertising and marketing, Produktentwicklung, Produktion und Arbeitswissenschaften.

The Web Content Strategist's Bible: The Complete Guide To A New And Lucrative Career For Writers Of All Kinds

Coping with the construction and upkeep of the large quantity of websites calls for an knowing of not only net writing, yet of special, well-planned, life like content material improvement techniques. these training the hot self-discipline of web pages process are being known as upon to assist internet improvement groups navigate this new editorial atmosphere the place content material not just needs to be written, but additionally damaged up into millions of items that experience to be reviewed, authorized, re-purposed, edited for se's, translated, localized, and generated utilizing a brand new and intricate set of instruments and methods.

Plain English for doctors and other medical scientists

Undeniable English for medical professionals indicates easy methods to write approximately clinical technological know-how in a transparent and shiny approach. it could actually aid a scientific author at any point, from newbie to veteran, because it supplies particular, functional suggestion. Writing in undeniable English may help your writing achieve a much broader viewers, together with humans in different specialties, degrees of teaching, different fields, and different international locations worldwide.

Extra info for Plain English for doctors and other medical scientists

Example text

Instead you have to look up the two parts. 10 We can make things clearer by writing this word as a hyphenated compound, hyper-​ adrenergic. ) Or, consider another closed compound, psychomotor. Anyone not familiar with this word might try to say, psy-​CHOM-​o-​tor, as though it rhymed with barometer. As a result, they also might miss that it is formed from the words psycho and motor. The right way to pronounce this word is, PSYcho-​MOtor. It sounds like two words, with the stress at the beginning of each word.

G. Avoid using a high percentage of long words 1. Underline each long word in the excerpt. Double underline each essential scientific term. 38 38 Plain English for Doctors and Other Medical Scientists 2. Compute long words as a percentage of total words. (# long words/​270 words = _​_​_​ %) 3. Revise to minimize long words but keep essential scientific terms. Break up any long sentence and make other changes to improve reading ease. 4. Compute a new percentage of long words for the revised excerpt.

3 3. 4 4. 5 29 Prefer the Short Word 29 5. 7 B. Cite a common medical term once to avoid confusion Many common medical terms don’t qualify as an essential scientific term since they have a plain English equivalent or can be paraphrased in a few shorter words. Think of urticara (hives), angioedema (giant hives), cardiovascular disease (heart disease), cerebrovascular disease (blockage of arteries to the brain), and ventricular hypertrophy (heart wall thickening). There may be times when you hesitate to write in plain English, because you feel it might confuse a reader if you don’t use a common medical term.

Download PDF sample

Rated 4.94 of 5 – based on 3 votes