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In our RSS feed "Medical Writing Tips for the Biomedical Scientist" we review the most common mistakes that we, biomedical scientists, make when writing papers, grants or dissertations. We will post a paragraph taken from a biomedical paper for you to read and edit. Few days later, we will post an edited version of the same paragraph and briefly discuss the revisions. Check the full version of the medical writing tips here, which includes links to definitions or articles pertinent to the examples discussed.
Practice 1. Examples of passive voice and writing clarity.
Practice 2. Examples of passive voice, writing clarity and superfluous words.
Practice 3. Examples of passive voice and writing clarity.
Practice 4. Examples of superflous words and repeating words.
Practice 5. Examples of Vague words, using hyphens, synthactic ambiguity, etc.
Practice 6. Examples of Abbreviations, Vague words, etc.
Practice 7. Examples of Wordy sentences, Vague words, etc.
Practice 8. Examples of Long sentence, singular articles and uncountable nouns, etc
Practice 9. Examples of passive voice and writing clarity.