This guide is designed to assist Advocate Health - Midwest teammates in developing their medical writing skills for scholarly publications. It serves as a starting point for accessing library resources that help in crafting clear, organized, and appropriate content for various healthcare audiences.
Specific resources for nurses and for writing case reports are available on other pages of this guide.
Featured eBooks:
Diagnosing and Treating Medicus Incomprehensibilis: Case Studies in Revising Medical Writing by
Diagnosing and Treating Medicus Incomphensibilis is a book of case studies on revising medical writing into plain English. This book is intended for doctors and other medical scientists who write for medical journals, and anyone who aspires to do so. It includes writers in related fields such as public health, pharmacology, nursing and life sciences.
Medical Writing: A Guide for Clinicians, Educators, and Researchers by
3rd edition - This book is a clear and comprehensive guide that assists readers in translating observations, ideas, and research into articles, reports, or book chapters ready for publication. Loaded with practical information, tips to help achieve publication, and real world examples, Medical Writing can improve skills for clinicians, educators, and researchers, whether they are new to writing or seasoned authors.
Writing High-Quality Medical Publications: A User's Manual by
The imperative to "publish and not perish" has never been more compelling. Yet millions of manuscripts are prepared each year without a clear path to publication by a peer-reviewed medical journal. This book can be your trustworthy companion as you seek to enhance both the structure and substance of your manuscripts.
How to Write Better Medical Papers by
This book guides medical researchers through all stages of transforming their scientific data and ideas into a published paper. Instead of wasting the reader's time discussing trivialities of punctuation, spelling, etc., this book tackles all the major scientific issues that routinely lead to manuscripts getting rejected from the journals. The section "Preparing" covers the range of methodological, ethical, and practical aspects that researchers need to address before starting to write their paper. The section "Analyzing" reviews commonplace problems in the statistical analysis and presentation, and how to resolve those problems. The section "Drafting" describes what to write in all the various parts of a paper (the Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, Abstract, etc.) The section "Revising" explains and illustrates how to improve the writing style of any manuscript. The section "Publishing" discusses how to navigate the peer review process and all other practical aspects of the publishing phase.
Story, Not Study: 30 Brief Lessons to Inspire Health Researchers As Writers by
This book offers brief, accessible lessons that guide researchers to write clear and compelling scientific manuscripts The book is divided into three sections - Story, Craft, and Community. The Story section offers advice on getting the balance of study and story just right, introducing strategies for tackling each section of a scientific manuscript. The Craft section considers the grammatical and rhetorical tools of the trade, showing how they can be wielded for maximum impact. And the Community section offers suggestions for writing collaboratively, supporting other writers, and navigating peer review. Each section features multiple short and pragmatic lessons, peppered with illustrative examples.
AMA Manual of Style by
11th edition - The AMA Manual of Style is written and maintained by JAMA Network editors. This edition includes updates with examples of how to cite digital publications, preprints, databases, data repositories, podcasts, apps and interactive games, and social media.
The American Medical Writers Association book series is available in print at the Aurora Sinai Medical Center library, and can be shipped to any of the library locations for pickup. The books in this series include:
Use the book request form to request a book be transferred to the library location nearest you.
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