Writing a Biomedical Research Paper A Guide to Structure and Style /

• Main Author: Budgell, Brian Stephen (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Tokyo : Springer Japan, 2009.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Medicine & Public Health.; Medicine/Public Health, general.; Biomedicine general.

All of us in biomedicine understand the urgency of getting experimental results into print as quickly as possible. Yet this critical step in the cascade from research conception to publication receives almost no attention in our formal training. It is as if we have been put to sea without a compass....

Table of Contents:

• Beginning a Manuscript
• The Title: Your Last Chance to Make a First Impression
• Writing an Eff ective Introduction
• Ensuring the Flow of Discourse: Conjunctions and Conjuncts
• Hedging Your Bets and Minding Your Modals
• Writing an Eff ective Methods Section
• The Passive Voice and I
• Writing an Eff ective Results Section
• The Special Case of Case Studies
• Writing an Eff effctive Discussion
• Is It a Discussion or a Systematic Review?
• Writing an Eff ective Abstract
• The Process of Manuscript Submission and Review.