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Practical Authorship: Tools

Posted on 08 May 2015 by Bob Phillips

Welcome to a new series. We’d love to have contributors, ideas and comments. The aim of this group of blogs are to address the question How do you write, particularly a paper for a clinical, academic audience? And we’ll start, not at the very beginning, because although it is a very good place to start, it […]

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Practical Authorship: So you want to write

Posted on 15 May 2015 by BMJ

This is a another part of the series about writing. This one is from @Ian_Wac ogne, Editor of the wonderful green Education and Practice edition. It’s part of a resource which will grow, over the weeks and months for people to access if they’re thinking about writing. This post – as others may be – is […]

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Practical Authorship: What should you write?

Posted on 02 Jun 2015 by BMJ

What do you want to write? I ended the last blog post with the thought that you might write about things that irritate you, or that interest you. […]

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Practical Authorship: Who is Reading?

Posted on 09 Jun 2015 by BMJ

If you write, who is reading?   Something I find strange is that people don’t draw on their own experience of reading when they begin to write.  As such, they often don’t write in a way that they themselves would be drawn to.   Let me start here with a couple of questions. Please answer […]

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Practical Authorship: Should I write a Case Report?

Posted on 16 Jun 2015 by BMJ

Should you write a case report? There is a short answer here, and there is a long answer.  I will give you the short answer, but only if you promise to read the rest.  The short answer is “no”*.  The longer answer is… […]

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Practical Authorship: What to write instead of a Case Report

Posted on 28 Jul 2015 by BMJ

I’ve spent quite a while trying to convince you that you really ought not to be writing a case report.  But you’re in a bind.  Firstly, you’ve got in mind a case report – or you’re under pressure to write a case report with (for) someone.  And also, you’ve got to get published.  So, what […]

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Practical Authorship: Starting to Write

Posted on 29 Jan 2016 by BMJ

I’ve hopefully convinced you in my previous posts that you might like to write, and I may even have given you some ideas about what to write about. This is about how to actually write something. […]

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Practical Authorship: What not to do when writing, 1.

Posted on 05 Feb 2016 by BMJ

The world is full of people who will tell what rules to follow when writing, and include some frankly made up rules about what not to do.  Many of these should be ignored and dismissed as the worst sort of control freakery.  I’d argue that there is no such thing as incorrect writing – because […]

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Practical Authorship: What not to do when writing, 2.

Posted on 12 Feb 2016 by BMJ

What not to do when writing? Well! Where should I start?  (actually, I already have – check out the previous post where I covered loads of really good stuff like how to talk about people and things and punctuation and irritants generally.)* Here I’m going to talk about the use of mathematical symbols, abbreviations and quote […]

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Practical Authorship: Keeping it Brief

Posted on 26 Feb 2016 by BMJ

You’ll have read, or have been taught about haiku, the highly stylised Japanese three line poetry which has five, seven and five syllables per line.   What you don’t hear is people saying “Oh, haiku are great; I just wish they were a bit longer”. […]

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