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By Margaret Cargill

This ebook indicates scientists how you can observe their research and synthesis abilities to overcoming the problem of the way to write down, in addition to what to jot down, to maximize their possibilities of publishing in foreign clinical journals.
The booklet makes use of research of the clinical article style to supply transparent tactics for writing each one component to a manuscript, beginning with transparent ‘story’ building and packaging of effects. every one studying step makes use of functional workouts to enhance writing and knowledge presentation talents according to reader research of well-written instance papers. thoughts are offered for responding to referee reviews, and for constructing discipline-specific English language abilities for manuscript writing and polishing.
The publication is designed for scientists who use English as a primary or an extra language, and for person scientists or mentors or a category surroundings. in line with reader requests, the hot version contains evaluate articles and the total diversity of study article codecs, in addition to employing the book’s rules to writing investment functions.

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Without this, it will be difficult to write about your work so as to show how it fits into the progress being made in your field. In fact, this knowledge is important when the research is being planned, well before the time when the paper is being written: you should try to plan your research so it fits into a developing ­conversation in your field. Active involvement in international conferences is an important way to gain access to this international world of research in your field. Therefore, you need both written and spoken English for communication with peers.

For each question, decide where in a manuscript a reviewer would expect to find evidence on which to base their answer. Write one or more of the following abbreviations beside each question: A, I, M, R, D, or Ref (meaning reference list). For example, for question 5 you would write M and R. Again, bear in mind that in an AIBC (Abstract, Introduction, Body sections, Conclusions) structure the elements M, R, and D may appear in sections with other names. Check your answers in the Answer pages. 1 Titles as content signposts Good titles clearly identify the field of the research, indicate the “story” the results tell, and raise questions about the research in the mind of the reader.

1. 1 Examining data display Examine your Selected Article (SA) for the types of data and how they are displayed. 1 Is the overall picture or trend obvious in the way the data are presented? Could it have been made more prominent? 2 What comparisons between elements interest you, and does the presentation type and style make these comparisons easy? 3 Are the necessary details of datasets presented to allow you to make calculations from the data? 4 Does the figure have any of the weaknesses described above and how do these detract from the telling of the story?

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