Top ten tips for Portuguese speakers. This is an excellent article which covers aspects common to many other Latin based languages. A Clarity Clinic for Surgical Writing. While this article does focus on surgery, it includes excellent advice regarding sentence structure, jargon, humane word choice and more. Medical…
In the previous post we discussed the basics of sentence structure. Here we look at a few common errors that even native speakers make. Fragments A sentence needs a subject and a predicate, if one of these are missing we have a sentence fragment. This is a very common error,…
Sentence structure can make or break your writing. While you may be able to communicate perfectly when speaking, writing is a different skill and requires extra attention to structure. Poor sentence structure leads to awkward sounding sentences, childish and disjointed writing, or long confusing and difficult to read prose. There…
Transitional words and phrases help move the text from one idea or paragraph to the next. It makes the text flow smoothly and assists the reader move easily from one concept to another. In this post I have collated a list of transitional words and phrases and grouped them depending…
Revising and Editing a Medical Document is just as important, if not more important, than the original draft. It can change an average document into an excellent one. However, it is an aspect often overlooked by doctors and scientists. Many consider revising and editing a once over of a draft,…
Let’s start with a few basics. While you may know these rules, they are common mistakes and very easy to make. Even small errors such as these can impact how someone views your work and the impression of professionalism and expertise you give. Reviewing the basics will help avoid these…
Over the last 3 years I have spent countless hours studying child obesity and the surrounding environmental associated factors. One particular feature of research and the publishing culture has particularly stood out to me: The emotive language used to sell research and publish, and the “catch phrases” that get tagged…
Part of science and research is the ability to communicate research effectively to a wide audience. Writing well is essential to the job and the associated skills should be invested in. Even for the more experienced researchers, it´s often good to go back to the basics, reassess our own writing…
Now that I work as a medical writer, the most frequent question friends and family ask, after telling me how great that sounds, is, “what exactly does a Medical Writer do?”. The simplest and most succinct answer is: A Medical Writer writes about Medicine or Health. However, that´s a very narrow…
Bienvenido/-a a mi blog. Aquí compartiré algunas de las claves más importantes para escribir textos médicos y científicos en inglés con éxito. Tocaremos temas de gramática, errores comunes que suelen cometer los hablantes españoles nativos en inglés, palabras claves en textos científicos, estilo de redacción científica en inglés, como elegir…